It's a short drive from Pennsylvania to Michigan

Many Michiganders are celebrating these days. A Michigan prison, scheduled to be closed, will remain open thanks to the State of Pennsylvania. Because of overcrowded conditions in that state, some 1,000 prisoners will be shipped off to the Muskegon Correctional Facility.

And so we celebrate here. Many guards, with their inflated wages, will remain employed, and the state will be reimbursed 62 dollars a day for every Pennsylvania prisoner transferred here, translating into more than $22.5 million per year.

Not much thought or concern for the spouses, moms and dads, children and siblings of those being transferred. To visit their loved one, they’ll face a one-way trip of 650 miles, which would take an estimated 10 hours. Then one must drive home again.

Can’t really be our worry. After all, they’re just prisoners, and good people don’t go to jail.

‘tis the season to receive! Let us rejoice and be merry.

Comments

Missing our son said…
Our son is wrongfully convicted and serving 8-16 years in a Pennsylvania Prison. I pray and ask you as well to pray earnestly that he is NOT moved. It would be the worst of all this tragedy that is already unbearable!

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