Oaks Correctional Facility has a new resident - a notorious celebrity from Detroit.

[Mary A.]

Kwame Kilpatrick has moved from the Manoogian Mansion in Detroit to a posh gated community in Dallas to a prison cell in Manistee. I wonder what's in store for him there.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100609/NEWS01/6090338/1318/Kilpatric...

[AQUAMAN]

Maybe CO Fink will have a new buddy to tease. I just hope his family doesn't move to Ludington now for visitation.

[stumpjumper]

Aqua; [his] ? Mr.Fink or Kwame well eather way! if wishes were bikes we all go for a ride.

[masonco]

Already they said he will be in the "protected unit" separated from the general population so he will have special treatment.

They did clarify on tv tonight that the Oakes facility is a step below maximum security so some of us did have that right! The Oakes is NOT a maximum security prison.

Aquaman..CO Fink will probably allow Kwame special privileges. Is Kwame still married?

[Dave]

Kwame is still married... his wife is probably back down in Texas enjoying her cosmetic surgery that he somehow found the money to pay for yet couldn't be bothered to pay on his restitution... he definitely got what he deserved.

[XLFD]

And you thought your 40th birthday was as bad as it gets!
I only hope we see more crooked politicians end up in the hoosegow in the future.
Unfortunately, he'll still be living on the taxpayer's dime, with three 'squares' a day... and (one would hope) a discrete liaison with Bubba the trustee.

[masonco]

3 squares,
+ paid cable TV
+ daily showers
+ free laundry service
+ free medical care
+ access to gym and exercise yard
+ phone calls

Hey wait those in nursing homes don't fare as well as our prisoners do.

[AQUAMAN]

AMEN to that Masonco, Amen.

[masonco]

Aquaman my point exactly.
Here is an email I received recently and over the years even recently I've seen this myself as I worked in Nursing homes in MI.
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While locked up, prisoners have it better in prison than they did when they lived in the streets while our elderly have everything taken from them because they are "old".

Nursing home patients are "locked" in their bed at the will of the CENA's often without call lights or water.
They were put to bed without pants or underwear. Just a sheet to cover them since few if any will get out of bed when they are naked from the waist down.
Patients who liked to use the call light "happened" to have their push button fall on the floor or buried where patient can not reach them..

Have to go to bathroom at night while in nursing home? Remember naked from waist down. They turn on call light to go to bathroom. No one comes, they wet their bed. THEN when aides finally come and answer the light, the aide yells at the patient for soiling the bed. What did grandma do to deserve that? Yes prisoners get better care than our elderly do.

Maybe the "prisoners" should be locked up in nursing homes and elderly patients moved to prisons. The elderly would
be monitored 24/7,
free cable tv,
free immediate medical care
access for walking and exercise
socialization
and best of all---all this on taxpayer $$$ and everything the elderly worked for would go to heirs not nursing homes.

In the nursing home the prisoners would be
denied fresh water (not my job)
denied toilet rights (she's on break again)
denied hot meals (sorry we could not pass the trays out on time)
entertainment consists of being put in front of a tv to view the same old movies over and over and over.
No tv's in room and if they have tv cable is too costly for them to afford.
Families of prisoners would have to pay $5000 a month for housing costs for that prisoner until all assets are gone then they might get medicaid--maybe

[XLFD]

Excellent, and poignant, point, Masonco. I wetted myself in a show of solidarity.

[XLFD]

Correct, Disarm. Last October, I served a brief, and voluntary, term in the jail for 'civil contempt' of court. Probate Judge Raven illegally took a turn in District Court, a court he had no legal jurisdiction or high court approval to judge a traffic court issue (the notoriously misplaced stop sign I yielded at on my bicycle, but didn't 'fully' stop at).

I rightly pointed out his malfeasance and refused to obey the court order, until he proved how he had jurisdiction. He never has, nor has anyone else.

[masonco]

loss of freedom in the nursing home is worse. There you lose everything including your hard earned assets and any shred of dignity.

While what I posted was an email going around the internet, I have observed first hand discipline by put someone to bed and stripping them naked from the waist down. The excuse is so avoid skin breakdown, but in reality it is to keep them in bed out of the way.,

[XLFD]

In the three days I was at our local jail, I was in a small cell by myself with no TV, radio, or printed entertainment. I was not allowed to carry any personal items in, and only got one opportunity to get out of my cell and go to a common room (by myself) which had a TV and a few books, one of which I was allowed to take back to my cell. In their defense, as a 'civil' prisoner I was supposed to be sequestered from the normal population.

They allowed me 2 envelopes and 2 sheets of paper to write letters, but the letters I wrote in the first couple hours were never mailed during my stay, even though I had them up at the window and asked the gaoler to post them. I never was told the rules of the jail, my rights as a prisoner, and never seen either of them posted. If you think this should be mandated by law, it is.

Even though this civil charge should not go on my record, my employer has been contacted directly by at least one member of the MCSO offering a tainted, incorrect version of events, much like LPD's Chief Barnett did two years ago to the LFD. LEOs are not supposed to be doing that. It's against the law.

Four months after my stay, I was sent a collection agency's bill charging me for three days stay at their facility for $35-- even though, as a civil prisoner, I was immune to this fee, and actually earned $30 a day (applied to my illegal court order) for staying there. The officers who admitted me confirmed this on my arrival-- and it's the law.

Be that as it is, a poorly-managed nursing home can be tons worse to its residents than a humanitarianly-run correction facility. If one of our local nursing homes was alleged to be poorly-managed, I would love to see the facts come out here.

My "Bubba" jab at humor was referring to his discrete liaisons with others Kwame made while robbing the taxpayers. I wished him to continue both in his incarceration, and I do hope he has some tender moments with Bubba.

I do agree with you that any one of us upright, law-abiding citizens (shows halo) could get thrown into a correctional facility at any time by non-law-abiding LEOs and/or judges, and have to deal with bad Bubbas. Unfortunately, it happens too often.