New Prisons
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We taxpayers hear about the overcrowded jails caused by the wave of drug busts. Sentences are cut in half or less so the jails can make room for a new batch of criminals.
Why wait for fancy cells with indoor plumbing, etc., when Army-type detention camps can be built quickly at modest cost to accommodate these chronic law-breakers?
Canvas tents, barbed-wire fencing and K-rations are familiar to many thousands of law-abiding Americans. It’s about time we also let the dregs of society breathe some of that bracing Mojave Desert air.
BILL RETCHIN
La Quinta
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