USA to outsource crime?

[holy king]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8480047.stm

Schwarzenegger proposes Mexican jails take US inmates

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested the state could reduce prison spending by housing undocumented inmates in Mexican jails.

In comments made during a question and answer session, he seemed to suggest the prisons would be specially built.

Mr Schwarzenegger said the costs of building and running the prisons in Mexico would be half of California's.

Spoiler :

The state has one of the most overcrowded and underfunded prison systems in the US.

Last year, after a riot broke out in one prison, authorities were ordered to develop a plan to free 40,000 of the 150,000 inmates being held within two years.

"I think we can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take inmates - for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here - and get them to Mexico," Mr Schwarzenegger said.

"We pay them to build the prisons down in Mexico. And then we have those undocumented migrants down there in prison. It would half the costs to build the prison and run the prison," he said.

"We could save a billion dollars right there that could go into higher education."

He added that he believed allowing the private sector to become involved in running and managing prisons would also help cut costs.

Earlier this month, the California governor declared a fiscal emergency, announcing that severe cuts would be needed to stem a $19.9bn (£12.3bn) deficit.

do you view this as a viable option or are there better solutions to the problem?

 

[GenMarshall]

What the!? They took our prizonerzzz!

 

[RedRalph]

Surely there would be huge legal issues around this? what about visitor's rights, etc?

 

[Camikaze]

It's Australia all over again!

 

[bombshoo]

I am not at all in favor of this "privatizing prisons". Once you put in the incentive for someone to make money on something like this, it tends to go down hill very fast.

 

[Harvin87]

no way, Cali should keep their own criminals in... although some of them are Mexicans...

 

[Quackers]

Housing "undocumented" inmates.

So they are Mexican and have broken into the USA ilegally. Surely this is reasonable.

 

[RedRalph]

Housing "undocumented" inmates.

So they are Mexican and have broken into the USA ilegally. Surely this is reasonable.

They aren't just Mexican.

 

[Quackers]

Ok than send the undocumented Mexicans prisoners back to Mexican jail.

 

[holy king]

if they have commited no crimes in mexico, why would mexico put them in its jails?

 

[Yeekim]

Ok than send the undocumented Mexicans prisoners back to Mexican jail.

...because every Mexican without documents has "Mexican" written on his forehead with big black letters?

 

[Quackers]

I said undocumented Mexican inmates. IE) Mexicans who have broken into the US ilegally.

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, this ain't gonna fly

 

[woody60707]

Wait, why in gods name are illegals not deported after committing a crime??? Now I don't really care that much about undocumented workers, but as a general rule, (documented or undocumented) once you start committing crimes, your ass should be booted out of the country.

I'll be surprised if most Nations weren't like that?

 

[holy king]

the thing is, if they have no papers and dont tell the police where they're from, how can anyone know where they're from?

 

[Narz]

We should send SoCal kids to Mexican schools too. That'll show the teacher's unions!

 

[JollyRoger]

Anyone with a foreign accent should have their ties to the U.S. terminated.

 

[Ecofarm]

30% (more?) of the prison population in CA are illegal aliens. Seems we could house them wherever and then ship them home; if the prison is in Mexico, we just show them the door and *wave*.

 

[civ_king]

Legalize Marijuana and ship the friggin Mexicans back to Mexico (only illegal ones though) then we have half empty prisons within a decade

 

[Formaldehyde]

It's Australia all over again!

Perhaps the Terminegger is onto something here. We can outsource California healthcare, public colleges, and state government to Mexico as well. Perhaps then California will be able to balance its bloated budget from all the goofy referendums.

Anyone with a foreign accent should have their ties to the U.S. terminated.

How quickly they forget.

Schwarzenegger may have been an illegal immigrant at some point in the late 1960s or early 1970s because of violations in the terms of his visa.[22]