Quotes about inmate (16 Quotes)




    The out-of-pocket cost is usually about 50 to 55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.


    There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.


    The information and tips we receive that leads to inmate recoveries is invaluable. It's prohibitive for us to search every probate court record to track down these things down. We don't have the recourses so we rely on information from others. It's not uncommon for an officer of the court to contact us in these situations. But the size of the assets recovered in this case does make it somewhat unusual.

    They can be very dangerous. They're scary places. One thing you can't argue with is, they're cheaper to build. They would not be my first choice if I were on staff or an inmate. There's an awful lot that can go on in there that can't be detected.

    Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

    They're trying to insinuate this was done politically. None of them would ever let an inmate out of jail to help me. I would never sacrifice anybody for this election. This is total Cook County political bull----.



    The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

    You're constantly putting out fires, dealing with one crisis after another, so after a period of time, when inmate suicides are no longer a daily concern or a daily crisis, then a system will turn to something else that happens to be on the front burner.

    Until the state legislature gives us authority or a mandate that we will make arrangements for an inmate to provide a semen sample it's our position that is one of the conditions prohibited by incarceration.

    This scenario has been playing out itself over and over. Here there was room for a balance between the personal interests of an inmate and the public's interest in keeping a facility safe and secure.

    The reasons we move an inmate, and I'll use the Dahmer situation, is that there is a lot of media attention and it stirs a lot of emotion. Wisconsin is a state with a lot of deer hunters, and we have a lot of inmates who are deer hunters, and there are some racial concerns.



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