What World…
2011-11-17 - by
Brutal jailers locked mentally ill prisoners in ‘isolation cells,’ took their clothes and mattresses, and left them to sleep naked on the concrete floor – it sounds like a prison in Bangkok or Rangoon only it didn’t happen in Bangkok it happened in Raleigh. The wardens at Central Prison called it “therapeutic seclusion.”
Governor Perdue’s explanation at her press conference was even more disingenuous. The mess, she explained, wasn’t caused by jailers run amok or just plain meanness – it was caused by “budget cuts.”
Last year, Governor Perdue spent hundreds of millions of dollars in Obama Stimulus Money and tried to give a German company $100 million in incentive money to move to Bladen County. But the debacle at Central Prison, she chirrups, is due to lack of money.
Sometimes it’s hard not to wonder what world Beverly Perdue is living in. No one’s to blame. No one’s been fired. Because budget cuts drove them to it.
Posted in North Carolina - Democrats, Raleigh
What World…
2011-11-17/
Brutal jailers locked mentally ill prisoners in ‘isolation cells,’ took their clothes and mattresses, and left them to sleep naked on the concrete floor – it sounds like a prison in Bangkok or Rangoon only it didn’t happen in Bangkok it happened in Raleigh. The wardens at Central Prison called it “therapeutic seclusion.”
Governor Perdue’s explanation at her press conference was even more disingenuous. The mess, she explained, wasn’t caused by jailers run amok or just plain meanness – it was caused by “budget cuts.”
Last year, Governor Perdue spent hundreds of millions of dollars in Obama Stimulus Money and tried to give a German company $100 million in incentive money to move to Bladen County. But the debacle at Central Prison, she chirrups, is due to lack of money.
Sometimes it’s hard not to wonder what world Beverly Perdue is living in. No one’s to blame. No one’s been fired. Because budget cuts drove them to it.
Posted in North Carolina - Democrats, Raleigh