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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > How can Democrats win back the House?
 
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Watermelon City
May 10, 2009

Atrocious Joe posted:

AFSCME, the largest public employee union, represents prison guards. They tend not to be happy about closing prisons.

Granted, even though they're the largest public employee union, they don't have much pull on the Democratic party platform nationally. They certainly wouldn't be a big supporter of ending the Drug War but they're not much of an impediment to the Dems.
I'm not sure the alternative to the current policy would even be prison closure. Prisons are so horribly overcrowded right now a change in policy would lead to normal prison population densities. It would make prisons safer for staff and those incarcerated. Prison understaffing and overcrowding of prisoners means yeah there's more opportunity for OT and base wages are very high for staff, but this also means turnover is high and conditions are unnecessarily dangerous for staff. At least here in California, the prison union's political warchest is so massive things aren't going to change unless the guards themselves can be convinced to change the current policies.

If prisons did close, wouldn't it start with private prisons which rely on government contracts, anyway?


If people already said all this stuff or we're back to gunchat again, my bad.

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