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2005/11/18-21 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:40641 Activity:kinda low
11/17   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051116/od_nm/life_prison_dc
        Why the jail system should be privatized.
        \_ "... the prison system received more money in its budget than it
           asked for ..."  Why would a govt department have receive more money
           asked for ..."  Why would a govt department have received more money
           than it asked for in its budget???
        \_ "... saying the prison system received more money in its budget than
           it asked for ..."  Why would a govt department have receive more
           money than it asked for in its budget???
           \_ Congress does this to the DoD all the time.  "You will buy
              this pork item that you don't really want, with this money."
              But all that's really necessary is that they direct the dep't
              to spend money on something they didn't plan for, but that the
              legislature wants them to do.
              \- you also see weapon systems that the armed services dont
                 even want or weapon systems whose compoenents are sourced
                 from 48-50 different states. the osprey is one example of
                 program with a bizarre history. obgoogle etc.
                 \_ Very often at the expense of things like spare parts,
                    operational supplies and training, according to several
                    officer type I know who left the army for this and
                    similar reasons (generally overpoliticization.)  -John
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news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051116/od_nm/life_prison_dc
Wed Nov 16, 9:06 AM ET DES MOINES (Reuters) - Two convicted murderers were able to climb over a wall and escape from an Iowa prison because budget cuts left some guard towers unmanned, a state senator said on Tuesday. Click Here Officials at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison were unable to s taff all of the prison's towers because of a lack of state funding and w ere relying instead on an electronic wire "that was supposed to take car e of all the security problems," said Eugene Fraise, a Democrat who repr esents the prison area. Lance Horbach, later disagreed wi th Fraise, however, saying the prison system received more money in its budget than it asked for and the real question was why the alert wire fa iled to do what it was supposed to. The two men escaped on Monday night by tossing a rope on the wall around the facility, and police in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri were still hunti ng for them on Tuesday. Fraise told the Radio Iowa news network he never liked the wire idea beca use: "I always thought that those towers ought to be manned. They were p ut there for a reason, and that was security." The prison on the banks of the Mississippi River was established in 1839 when Iowa was still a territory, and it is the oldest prison west of tha t river. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon .