tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5367635398658847198..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Fewer GEDs, prison industry jobs thanks to TDCJ budget cutsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-20344287797433156882013-06-09T00:58:09.681-05:002013-06-09T00:58:09.681-05:00Anon 11.54 ~ I know this is an old post, but I cou...Anon 11.54 ~ I know this is an old post, but I could not let the comment go without correcting you. Inmates did not get FREE medical care before the $100 flat rate medical tax was introduced on inmate families. Inmates had to pay $3 from their accounts (funded in the most part by inmate families) for each visit to medical staff.<br /><br />Sorry we don't all live in your perfect world.sunray's wenchhttp://lookingforthecabinbythelake.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-56254462452737264832011-09-20T23:54:21.391-05:002011-09-20T23:54:21.391-05:00Inmates can be charged a co-pay for medical. The d...Inmates can be charged a co-pay for medical. The days of inmates getting free medical care are over. A co-pay helps defray the cost. It also helps stop inmates from going on sick call for extremely minor problems that can be handled by the inmate and are trying to get out of work. As for struggling families putting money in inmate accounts,cry to someone else. The inmate should have thought about the 'burden' he is putting his family through when he committed the crime. Sorry for the reality check.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-40802739833539682382011-09-08T11:58:00.830-05:002011-09-08T11:58:00.830-05:009/06/2011 01:30:00 PM,
Lots of people can't m...9/06/2011 01:30:00 PM,<br /><br />Lots of people can't make the connection: Lower taxes = no new public employee jobs + reductions in current ones.<br /><br />We're still waiting for all the new private sector jobs that were supposed to have been created by Bush's tax cuts. Oh wait, those jobs were created overseas and the tax savings were used for executive salary increases and bonuses, and to buy more corporate jets, additional mansions and politicians!The Comediannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21056665744009907662011-09-08T07:32:53.111-05:002011-09-08T07:32:53.111-05:00They don't get it. They never will because th...They don't get it. They never will because the ones making the decisions aren't much smarter than the ones they lock up.<br /><br />The only way to rehabilitate is through EDUCATION.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7301620840678428662011-09-06T13:47:03.671-05:002011-09-06T13:47:03.671-05:00I suppose the alternative, more parole releases, d...I suppose the alternative, more parole releases, doesn't cut cost like removing the services. I guess, the incremental cost of feeding an offender food and having reduced prison guards doesn't compare to using professionals to teach and run prison businesses/factories which teach trade. This is the short term solution which will cost in the future with continued unemployment once released and of course the almighty recidivism. I am not convinced the system is at all interested in reducing its size. <br /><br />There is a piece missing...what is the cost of having empty/closed down prisons? Does anybody know the extent to which these state prisons receive Federal funds (if any)? In real estate the way to keep making money is to build, build, build. There must be something like that going on in Texas. Maybe its time for correction of the prison market (like the over valued stock market or the over valued real estate market), but instead of letting go of the small time drug users and all those who have been falsely accused and wrongly convicted, they just pull the services. So, when the recovery of our economy comes, we will still be sitting BIG with our prisons.Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04316183416545492160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-90743583823997422632011-09-06T13:30:19.786-05:002011-09-06T13:30:19.786-05:00And well over half of these people being laid off ...And well over half of these people being laid off will continue to vote for candidates who vow, "No new taxes." The ripple effect of that inane stance will be felt for many, many years to come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5723153734142786832011-09-06T10:39:45.431-05:002011-09-06T10:39:45.431-05:00I am wondering about the constitutionality of the...I am wondering about the constitutionality of the $100 insurance co-pay? Can inmates who are paid nothing have this additional burden added to their sentence? Families struggle to put a few bucks in an inmates account only to have it taken for medical so the punishment rolls over to include non-inmates.<br />I don't know what the big picture is supposed to be but taking away education and jobs makes absolutely no sense. Thousands of idle inmates is a forecast for trouble.Angeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00323251252533007308noreply@blogger.com