<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>YES!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Sunil.<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:30 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Scott,<br><br>Have you been following the CCA lawsuit in Idaho? They are busy demonstrating why this core state function should not be privatized. Here's one story:<br><br><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/05/warden_of_privately_run_idaho.html" target="_blank">http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/05/warden_of_privately_run_idaho.html</a><br><br>I think this is the point Tom is trying to make: If private companies fund politicians, they are not going to change laws; they will not reduce the number of prisoners heading to prison.<br><br>I think it's more complicated than that, but I do think it's one factor in the mix. <br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a><br>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:43:46 -0600<br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [corrected] It's Time for an Honest Conversation About Marijuana . . .<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">If the goal is to save money, then I agree that having fewer folks in prison would save more. But then there is cost of having people roaming free stealing property and / or causing property damage that would also need to be factored in to the equation. In a perfect state, the bare minimum number of folks would be incarcerated and upon release would be rehabilitated. Fat chance of that happening.<br><br>I don't have any evidence that privatizing prisons saves tax dollars. Tom correctly stated that I still don't get his point. This was mainly because he was unable to clearly articulate it.<br><br>Saundra, as for your statement of '<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">[prison privatization being]
just a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to the private sector where
there’s less accountability and higher per inmate costs – which
translates to corporate profits – and lower wages & decreased
quality of corrections professionals.',</span> this wouldn't surprise me one bit especially with Republicans in charge.<br><br>-Scott<br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling"><br></div></div></div> </div>
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