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NY Republican Candidate Proposes Turning Prisons into Dormitories for People Receiving Welfare

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Still another example of no disgusting thought left unsaid..... "Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we'll teach people how to earn their check. We'll teach them personal hygiene ... the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes," Paladino said. NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Sat Aug 21, 2010 NEW YORK ? Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene." Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, isn't saying the state should jail poor people: The program would be voluntary...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).