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Satellite TV in the Big House?
Nov 15, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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I read the story  below and literally said out loud.. "you have got to be kidding me?!". Agree? Disagree? Blog about it!

ATLANTA (AP) -- Warden Frank Taylor wants satellite TV -- for his prisoners. Taylor is asking Clayton County, Georgia, commissioners for permission to spend $100 a month for the satellite TV service. He says he wants inmates to be able to watch "Monday Night Football," which is now on the ESPN cable network. Warden Taylor says having MNF available would be a so-called "management tool" he can use with the prison population. He says the TV subscription fee would come out of the prison's commissary and pay phone accounts.

 
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mjb07
Nov 15, 2007 | 12:54 PM

Jail just ain't what it used to be!
MADsMom read my blog
Nov 15, 2007 | 1:17 PM

why dont we just send them to the local hotel and forget about jail? this is completely ridiculous, they arent supposed to be "comfortable" in jail, thats whats wrong with it now. they're too comfortable.
Gooberpug read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 2:15 PM

BLEEP, I can't even afford that kind of money for stupid TV. Thats right, give a bunch of hoodlums even more stuff to fight over while in jail. What the heck is he thinking?
Starrman read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 3:52 PM

Totally agree with all of the oposters so far!!
"What we have here, is failure to" treat these scum like the thugs that they are! Need more jails like the one potrayed in the movie, "Cool Hand Luke".

"Warden Taylor says having MNF available would be a so-called "management tool". How about a LOT of hard time as a "Management tool?"
GrandmaM read my blog view my photos
Nov 15, 2007 | 5:14 PM

Agreed. I think HE is a "management tool".

Why not put them in individual cells 23 hours a day, do away with any extras, do away with parole, and (OMG) punish them? I heard a while back that some prisoners in Florida had access to phones and were running scams on people over the phone. The idea that black, white or hispanic gangs "own" a piece of the jail and can run it is dumb. They did something bad; punish them.
priveye
Nov 16, 2007 | 7:13 AM

Grandma....double check your spelling....I think you meant "management FOOL."
GrandmaM read my blog view my photos
Nov 16, 2007 | 11:51 AM

Well, actually fool would work, but "tool" is a modern double entendre, which I know isn't nice, but which applies to the warden, dontcha think?
Sam_in_DC read my blog
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:05 PM

We need more Sheriffs like Joe Arpaio in Arizona. He is well known for his tough stance on cutting privileges to prisoners and treating them as harshly as the law will allow. Being in a border state, he is also taking a tough stance against illegal immigration.

Here are some of the things he has done in his jail that have made him famous and either very well loved or very much hated (depending on who you talk to):
? Serves surplus food like oxidized green bologna sandwiches twice daily reducing meal cost to 30 cents/day saving taxpayers $20,000 a year.
? Banned luxuries such as smoking, coffee, porno mags. & weightlifting equipment.
? TV is allowed (only because the law requires it) but he limits it to CNN, Weather, government access channel and Disney.
? Mandatory 2 week English classes for non-English speaking inmates. Program includes teaching inmates the basics about the US government, US history and the words to God Bless America.
? Has his own radio station broadcasted in the basement of the jail. The Station called KJOE, broadcasts classical, opera, Frank Sinatra and patriotic music (the only music allowed for the prisoners) as well as educational programming.
? Reinstituted chain gangs for low-risk prisoners. Inmates work eight hrs/day six days a week (no Sundays) doing tasks like creating fire breaks, trash pickup, and burying homeless people in the county cemetery. Not only chain gangs for men but separate programs for women and juveniles.
? When Arpaio discovered that the white underwear labeled with “Maricopa County Sheriffs Office” had become
Sam_in_DC read my blog
Nov 16, 2007 | 2:06 PM

continued:
? When Arpaio discovered that the white underwear labeled with “Maricopa County Sheriffs Office” had become a sort of a trendy item and being smuggled out to sell on the streets, he ordered all underclothing to be dyed pink…this eliminated the demand on the streets for these items.
? To put an end to inmates being released early due to lack of space and to avoid having tax payers spend over $50mill for a new jail, he created tent cities. He got tents from the military, set them up in and adjacent lot and hung a neon pink “Vacancy” sign. Arizona can get hot in the summer and when the inmates complained he reminded them that while they sat in jail soldiers in Iraq were fighting a war in desert heat. It got so hot a few years ago that the inmates were seen on the news walking around tent city in their pink underwear.
ilovepg
Nov 25, 2007 | 10:28 PM

No wonder the US has the most people incarcerated. Is jail really a deterent?
ASIA1
Nov 27, 2007 | 10:42 AM

NO-NO-NO I DON.T AGREE I BELIEVE THEY NEED TO PAY THEIR DEBT TO SOCIETY. SO ,THEY WANT US TO TAKE OUR TAX MONEY AND PAY FOR THEM TO SIT DOWN AND WATCH MNF. WHILE THE VICTIMS OR VICTIMS FAMLIES CONTINUE TO SUFFER. GET A LIFE WARDEN TAYLOR
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Holly_Morris

Emmy award winning anchor/reporter Holly Morris started with WTTG in December of 1998. Her specialty is "live" TV, which you can see her doing on FOX 5 Morning News. Each weekday morning, Holly reports and often interacts live from somewhere in the community either covering a breaking news story, previewing an event, or learning more about all that is available in and around the greater Washington area. Holly can also be seen anchoring FOX 5 News at Noon. Holly's work has earned her 4 regional Emmys, three of which were for "Best Live Reporting". She also has a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Prior to her career at WTTG-TV, Holly was an anchor/reporter at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. There she won three regional Emmy's including one for best anchor and one for best feature reporter. If Holly ever gets tired of the early morning wake-up calls for FOX 5 Morning News, she can always fall back on the profession of engineering. In 1993, she graduated from Duke University with a degree in civil and environmental engineering. Holly is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio.

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