Palmetto Prison System Blasted
Is there yet another scandal in the works for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s embattled cabinet? QuiteYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
Is there yet another scandal in the works for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s embattled cabinet? QuiteYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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I wish Haley would quit pissing away my tax money hiring her lawyer friends to appeal decisions that are well reasoned and supported by facts. Maybe she should give Alan Wilson a chance to do his job, since he obviously is not interested in reigning in bastards like Harrell.
And Mike Fair is the prime example of a career politician who basks in his own ego and self-importance.
FAT chance, She should be there also. Wilson? Haley clone, as Keel, Please! get a brain for your’e self.
Mike Fair irony: He has touted the efficacy of his volunteer Christian inmate rehabilitation programs but seems not to understand that a basic WWJD answer is “He would care for the least of these.”
Fuck them democrats like no tomorrow. Yea!!!
Until Haley is out of office every state agency under her control is going to be operated terribly. She has been a total failure on jobs the economy of this state and most of all failed every citizens with the data breach. However we can change that this year if common sense prevails.
Alan Wilson would not prosecute his own family’s murderer if it had political implications. Look at HM, he did the bidding of the corrupt FOR DECADES, and the best he can do is a paltry seat on a state board. Democrats go down, the speaker gets a pass. Alan Wilson for chair of the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission Board, 2018. Corrupt tool.
Alan Wilson showed guts and “leadership” recently when he supported Scarlett Wilson (no relation) of her “outing” the hypocrisy, dishonesty and political motivations of Don Beatty and indirectly,Beatty’s mentor and spiritual and political leader, Jean Toal. He did the right thing.
Everyone will see how transparently political AG Wilson’s actions are once they see that he will not move to recuse Beatty from a single case. It’s because he knows there is no legal basis to do so. His public response was calculated to appease the politically powerful solicitors, that’s all. If anything, is shows an abject lack of integrity.
Yet another failure of “reorganization” and the SC cabinet system.
Yet another failure of the 11 year Sanford/Haley administration and their sorry agency head/political hack picks.
Although,SC is especially bad,the treatment of the mentally ill in US prisons is a national disgrace.These people have no voice,and are treated as less than human. Remember,Abu Ghraib? That’s nothing compared to what goes on in the USA,everyday:http://www.newsmax.com/US/prison-mental-health-inmantes/2013/09/26/id/527895
“As hard core libertarians, there are very few things the authors of this website believe government should do – but those things (cops, courts, roads, prisons) must be done cost-effectively, transparently and with accountability.”
And yet you will ultimately endorse Haley for governor in 2014…unbelievable. Seriously, if Haley is defeated in 2014 it will be a shot across the bow for ALL Republicans, then we might see some real change.
Putting politiicans in charge of corrections develops the wrong attitudes, culture and practices – this is not an area for experimenting ideologies or other games. People get hurt inside these prisons and often people end up dying and staff take the burden of these events not the politician that can walk away from it. Find somebody to run your prisons Governor that has a working knowledge of the penal concept and basic sound principles and practices. It will not only reduce prison costs but it will reduce prison related death, healthcare issues, and compliance with laws. Most of all, it will improve morale and staff will be motivated to work and do their jobs like its suppose to be done.
I worked for SCDC for 26 years…All the accusations about the prison system…The treatment of the mentally challenged….The use of Administrative Segregation is in some case is needed…but the lack of proper actions of the State Classification. ..Social workers…and case worker is appalling. ..The use the system just to rotate the placement of the inmates…for example an inmate who with know physiological issues was being treated at the Gilliam Center at the Kirkland Correctional Institution.He was in a seclusion cell…drawing on the wall with his own feces. You would think proper treatment would be sought and given…but here is what happened…His caseworker had him reclassified and he was transfered to Manning Correctional Institution where after being placed in general population in Ward 1 which is an open unit with 79 inmates…He went off…to make the story short…He assaulted a sergeant and lieutenant. ..who had to remove him from the ward….but the most funny thing of all….The incident was covered up by the institution and the Warden…When one of the assaulted officers went digging about the inmate…and his classification…The records were gone…so in closing I think SCDC should be held responsible….for their mistreatment of their mentally challenged and the security staff who are one the line…..
http://www.thestate.com/2014/01/13/3204997/state-house-highlights-from-gov.html
Harleys budget screws state employees
A sad day for us all when we sit by and allow these criminal (yet govt. endorsed) activities occur. While our elected peckerheads, of all parties, go about their self-aggrandized way. Nimrata needs to go and take her boot licking cabinet with her.
The punishment for the criminally convicted American Citizens is TIME. Lost time away from family, lost time from a job, lost time from school, lost time from freedom and opportunity in the United States. Never was prison meant for mistreatment, neglect, abuse at the hands of corrections officials or other inmates.