January 28, 2009
12:07 am PST
5 commentsMoving prisoners
I live about 3 miles from the shore closest Alcatraz and I honestly don’t think having a maximum security prison with former Guantanamo inmates there would be any worse than just having a maximum security prison there in the first place. We already hold convicted terrorists in our prison system. These guys are thugs but we’re treating them like they’re all brilliant superhuman masterminds. Everyone should settle down a bit.
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I think one of the largest concerns is finding an appropriate prison for the “worst of the worst.” They’d need to be held in isolation because they wouldn’t last a day with the other prisoners.
Clearly we need to build Arkham Asylum. Then again, that place has the worst track record of escapes of any prison ever.
@Brendan- well, that’s a fair concern, but the one I’ve heard is “we don’t want them in the heartland… of America! It’ll ruin everything!”. Clearly this country doesn’t have any aversion to building prison facilities, though… we have the highest incarceration rate in the world, last I checked.
@Ted Haha, good call. I liked Jon Stewart’s line “You’re aware that KSM isn’t Magneto, right?”
haha… i heard the “let’s reopen alcatraz to hold the prisoners” rumor… ridiculous
Yeah, I think it was just proposed to try to anger SF liberals, but it’s not very realistic. Keeping them all in the same place seems foolish, anyway.
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