Lawmaker says state needs prison in Mexico

[Joanne98]

AUSTIN — With so many nonviolent Mexican citizens clogging an increasingly jammed Texas prison system, a state lawmaker thinks it may be time for Texas to set up a prison in Mexico.

After all, he figures, the inmates would be closer to home, and they're going to be deported anyway when their sentences are complete, so the move would save taxpayers money.

"The pluses are that it's a heck of a lot less expensive to build and staff prisons down there," Sen. Craig Estes said. "They would be Texas quality, and they'd roughly cost about half."

A hidden benefit? "I would hope some people might look at it as economic development in some areas of Mexico that desperately need it," he said.

State officials fear a looming crowding crunch in Texas prisons, already one of the nation's largest. Estes, a Wichita Falls Republican, said contracting with private prison companies to build and run prisons in Mexico might be the answer.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4542282.html

[BayCityProgressive]

1. why?

so we can outsource them and torture them like we do other captives?

[mike_c]

2. hmmm-- wouldn't do to stop locking people up for lots of minor offenses, tho....

eom

[havocmom]

3. China is not the only place prison labor is used

Corporations need young, nimble fingers to make stuff so they can slap on
MADE IN USA labels.

Pot users are less likely to be violent than criminals who drink like fish. Much easier to manage them as a forced labor population. Big Corporation needs lots of minor offenders locked up. REAL criminals do not make good workers.

[Gman]

4. Private Prison Company + Corrupt Mexico Justice System + Texas Mexican inmates +

Corrupt Republicans = a helluva money making, treasury looting scheme for a whole lot of people. I've heard some really, very incredibly stupid (not just stupid, but stupid beyond all the credibility of the notion of being stupid) ideas come out of the Texas legislature, but this one is up there among the all-time greatest in 170 years of Texas' existence.

[RC]

5. "They would be Texas quality,..."

Sure that will make your stay easier.

[sutz12]

6. Outsourcing....it's good for America

:sarcasm:

Did I really need that smiley? :rofl:

[Posteritatis]

7. Extraterritoriality FTW! (nt)

[USA No. 1]

9. More repubs shooting themselves in the foot....

How can any Mexican vote Republican? Better yet, how can anyone vote Rebpulican?

[Posteritatis]

10. I think this is more head than foot, really.. (nt)

[LynnTheDem]

8. you gotta be...what the...

:wow:

Just gotta be a joke.

Holy fucking shit. The arrogance is stupendously unfuckingbelievable.

[rebel with a cause]

11. Why not give Mexico a chance at having a prison economy.

I mean; Illinois, like a lot of other states, under republican governors has become more and more dependent on prison's for its employment. All of the factories and such have been outsourced, so they should have known it would only be a matter of time that prisons would follow suit. First it will be Mexican immigrants and then good ole Americans will be going "south of the border" and it wouldn't be for tacos.

:sarcasm: runs all through this post, just pick the spots where you think it fits.