Do You Think Prisons Should Be Privatized?
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The Governor of Arizona recently signed a bill into law that will allow for Arizona States Maximum Security prisons to be privatized. The governor did this in an attempt to save funding and cut the state budget, though the savings is estimated to be only between 1 – 2% of the budget. Bill Richardson a former Master Police Officer of Mesa, AZ wrote an interesting article in the Casa Grande Dispatch about the dangers of privatized prisons and how over 30% of Arizona prison inmates are gang affiliated and have influence in and outside of the prisons. This has involved targeting city officials and private officials and families in attacks outside of prison walls.
The article goes on to mention that private prisons often don’t have guards armed with guns and because the private prison guards are not true law officers they are much more limited in scope in what they can enforce and perform. This combined with the fact that privatizes prisons actually tend to pay prison guards a lower per hour wage makes it even more of a liability for people employed as private prison guards.
My own opinion is that when it comes to dangerous criminals there should not be anything but a government law agency involved, in my own right I don’t feel it is the right decision to turn over any law enforcement agencies to private corporations. I feel the same with the military hiring Blackwater Security forces for overseas assignments as well. The bottom line is people become trained in law enforcement and are bound by state and government laws and private corporations just are interested in keeping costs operational so they have a profit, if the private prison goes bankrupt we could be in serious trouble. The same holds true if a private prison were to cut safety protocols and procedures in the name of cutting costs and saving money.
It is a serious breach of security to start allowing maximum security prisons to become privatized in Arizona, and as a citizen of Arizona I fear this will only cause an increase in crime both within prison walls and outside prison walls.
-Justin Germino
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One of the Funniest Cat Picture Sites
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I was stumbling on StumbleUpon the other night and came across a site called My Cat is Retarded. It is a photo site similar to LOLCats, but without any captions and just has pictures of cats in very bizarre poses and situations. Maybe its the sick twisted humor in me, but I found the image funny and many of the images so hilarious that I just browsed through three dozen posts just laughing at occasional cat photo’s. I am a cat lover and one thing I love about cats is the crazy situations they get themselves into, it just is plain funny to see.
-Justin Germino
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The Twilight Obession
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Twilight is especially popular in Arizona because the author Stephanie Meyer lives here in Arizona and even though my literary icon Stephen King has denounced Stephanie Meyer I think the Twilight series has its place in modern times. Any book series that gets kids and teenagers to read is to be celebrated. Literature itself has fallen so dramatically with younger adults and children that it is a welcome relief that books can still grab interest and become obsessions like wildfire. With most vampire series being R rated and worse (Anne Rice anyone) it is good to see a series that fits with audiences in the younger preteen and teen years that can still touch the subject.
I myself enjoyed the first movie, I haven’t read the books only because I haven’t had the time not because I didn’t want to. My wife must be one of the very few women on the planet who has no interest in seeing the Twilight: New Moon film, even when I asked her if she wanted to go see it together she made it clear she had no interest.
-Justin Germino
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In Memory of Gouda our Boston Terrier
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Today we had to make the tough decision to put down our almost nine year old Boston Terrier named Gouda Emmenthaler Germino. He started having severe seizures for nearly four hours straight starting at three in the morning and had lost all sight and hearing and lost all coherence. We took him to the vet as soon as they opened and it was just best to put him out of his misery as he was clearly in pain and hurting. This has been a devastating day, especially for my wife since this was her dog. I bought this dog for her back in May 2001 as a gift and this was her first child and he has been such a loving member of our family, welcoming both of our children into this world without any jealousy at all.
Here is a small photo gallery in memory of Gouda our beloved Boston Terrier.
Fortunately, since we knew Gouda had been sick for a while on and off with pneumonia and a spinal stroke, we knew this day would come eventually. We had gotten another Boston Terrier named Porky in the beginning of the year who is only a 1 year old. So having a 2nd Boston Terrier helps ease the pain of losing our older one. One of the many reasons why two dogs are better than one in the family.
-Justin Germino
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JustinGermino.com Free AD Contest
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This site is kicking off a free Advertising Contest and 4 lucky winners will receive free 125×125 AD slots for 2 months on this site, the contest will run from November 3rd 2009 until November 17th 2009. I will pick 4 winners who will be given a 125×125 AD prominently displayed in my sidebar for a full month.
To enter the contest you can do the following, an entrant can gain a maximum of 5 entries:
- Leave a comment (1 entry)
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- Retweet the following on Twitter “JustinGermino.com is giving away free 125×125 AD slots to 4 lucky winners, enter contest now for free: http://ow.ly/z367 #jgfreead” (1 entry)
- Write a blog post linking back to this post, advertising the free ad (1 entry)
Good luck to the entrants of the contest and I wish everyone good luck.
Update: Contest is over, the 4 winners are announced:
Blaine Bullman
Reyjr
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Akira07
-Justin Germino
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