Imagine if we had invested this type of money in daycares and family support programs over the years. Maybe if we had supported smaller classrooms and mental health care earlier in the prisoner's life. Maybe we wouldn't have had as many prisoners to deal with. THere always seems to be enough people willing to spend money to punish prisoners but not to help them before they fall through the cracks. I like the ideas Wittman talks about but wish we treated the at risk people in our community with that before they commit a crime
Respectfully, you have made clear that you possess doubts and objections about building a new prison. You have voiced an innuendo or suspicion that the powers behind the movement for the new prison are hiding their true agenda. You haven't offered their motives. If you are asserting that palms are being greased you haven't produced proof. You have also inferred it is an unnecessary project. You haven't said what the evidence is of that. I would be interested in whatever facts you have to refute the previously asserted factually supported need voiced by others supporting the building of a new penitentiary including the aspects of it dealing with positive steps (vocational and other rehabilitation) aimed at reducing recidivism. After reading your comments, I could not discern exactly why you are so adamant you should vote no.
I had a Bible study years ago at the Minnehaha jail (not the prison). A young single mother attended who was there because she had a DUI with her children in the back seat. I was told that had she done the exact same crime, with the same alcohol level in Omaha, she would have received a ticket and a court date. Guess what happened to her in Sioux Falls? She was immediately arrested and held for weeks in the county jail. Which lead to her losing her job, her car and her children...HER CHILDREN! Do you see how different and evil SD "justice system" works? ...and now they more room to drag "prisoners" to. How about NOT looking at prisoners as a commodity and start looking at other systems (like Omaha?) that work better.
Imagine if we had invested this type of money in daycares and family support programs over the years. Maybe if we had supported smaller classrooms and mental health care earlier in the prisoner's life. Maybe we wouldn't have had as many prisoners to deal with. THere always seems to be enough people willing to spend money to punish prisoners but not to help them before they fall through the cracks. I like the ideas Wittman talks about but wish we treated the at risk people in our community with that before they commit a crime
How about NO.
We need a comprehensive corrections policy First before we move forward toward a $650+ Building project. My reasons here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fredcarpenter204043/p/vote-no-on-building-a-new-prison?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=slto0
Rep Schaefbauer,
Respectfully, you have made clear that you possess doubts and objections about building a new prison. You have voiced an innuendo or suspicion that the powers behind the movement for the new prison are hiding their true agenda. You haven't offered their motives. If you are asserting that palms are being greased you haven't produced proof. You have also inferred it is an unnecessary project. You haven't said what the evidence is of that. I would be interested in whatever facts you have to refute the previously asserted factually supported need voiced by others supporting the building of a new penitentiary including the aspects of it dealing with positive steps (vocational and other rehabilitation) aimed at reducing recidivism. After reading your comments, I could not discern exactly why you are so adamant you should vote no.
Again, it's the maga way to just say things with no proof.
I had a Bible study years ago at the Minnehaha jail (not the prison). A young single mother attended who was there because she had a DUI with her children in the back seat. I was told that had she done the exact same crime, with the same alcohol level in Omaha, she would have received a ticket and a court date. Guess what happened to her in Sioux Falls? She was immediately arrested and held for weeks in the county jail. Which lead to her losing her job, her car and her children...HER CHILDREN! Do you see how different and evil SD "justice system" works? ...and now they more room to drag "prisoners" to. How about NOT looking at prisoners as a commodity and start looking at other systems (like Omaha?) that work better.
The children she put in harms way by driving intoxicated with them? In this case, it sounds like the justice system was doing its job.
it may...but Omaha judges that by percent...it was a small percent in her case I don't recall the number...
No prison and no money until Wasko is gone. Why is she still there until October? It doesn't smell right.