Michigan Superintendent to Governor...turn my school in to a prison

[Trooper110]

http://holykaw.alltop.com/school-sup...school-be-turn

I really like this. Prisoners need to be out rebuilding our roads and doing hard labor to pay back what we're putting in to the prison system, imo.

[Infamous]

i agree.

in colorado, if you are on food stamps or receive from the county, you need to do volunteer work = to how much you received. a few years back, i was quite unemployed, and had to go get me some food stamps, not my proudest moment, but it wasnt just free. I got like 175$ a month, and i had to do 22 hours of service somewhere. food shelters, filing papers, basically they had a huge list, i chose a museum, blah blah.

long story short, it was free, but i still had to "work" for it. this was just a mere 175 a month. doesnt it take like 30k a year, sometimes more to keep an inmate alive? im all for making them work to pay for their keep. it isnt like our infrastructure cant use some serious repair/upkeep.

[Skud]

Excellent point here:

The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student.

The problem is that even with sufficient funding, unless the kids have supportive/stable families/upbringing, the schools cannot save them. Wave after wave of dropouts does not make an Utopian society.

As for the prisoners and their rights: give them 3 meals a day, same thing every day. For exercise they can work or walk/run circles around the lawn. Let them go to a library as much as they went to one when they were not in prison. That should about cover it.

[Furryappleseed]

What type of food do they serve. Prison in MI seems the way to go...