New jail for polk county

Polk County is trying to build a new jail again, something they sorely need. You would think that with money from the federal gov't likely coming (as a payment per prisoner for housing federal prisoners) that will pay for a good chunk of this that it would be a sure thing. But you never know for sure.

For some reason, people love for government to be tough on crime, but they don't seem to want to pay for it in terms of more court and prison costs. We have seen that time and time again. What then happens is that prisons get even more crowded and they have to release a rapist or child molester so they can hold Jim Bob who got busted for doing some crank.

You can read the article below about the proposed Polk County jail. Considering how much cash the county is paying out to house prisoners elsewhere (so a new jail would cause the county to pay out less AND take in more, that is a good thing) I would certainly vote for it if I lived there. But opponents will certainly try to shoot it down, after all no one wants to pay more property taxes. It would be better to just let a murderer go free, have him kill someone in your famliy and then you can blame the gov't for letting him out of prison early. That is the American way after all.

Read it here:
http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050312/NEWS01/503120316/1001&lead=1