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IL: Guards and Police Want Prison Open: "Enough is Enough" "We already have the melons, now bring us the felons."

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Organizer Kathy Newstrand even came up with a motto for their efforts: "We Thomson prison workers are saying 'enough is enough' Barb Ickes | Posted: Saturday, April 4, 2009 THOMSON, Ill. - Squad cars lined the shoulder of the highway as more than 100 people filled a diner parking lot Saturday to rally for the opening of a prison and for the jobs that were promised long ago. "Enough is enough," rally organizer Randy Newstrand said of the back-and-forth status of opening the Thomson Correctional Center, about 50 miles northeast of the Quad-Cities. "We're getting together to move Thomson forward. All those (police) officers you see are here to support us. There's someone from every village in the county. We're coming together." Though the prison was built nearly eight years ago at a cost of $140 million, only a fraction of the state-of-the-art complex is being used...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 05, 2009 (boomark / email).