Highline/South Seattle Jail location axed
This is some good news:
Planners have dumped two of four possible jail sites in Seattle...
And it looks like props go out (again) to the DRCC and others for making this an issue:
No longer under consideration are two Seattle sites: 9501 Myers Way S. and 11762 Aurora Ave. N.
Catherine Cornwall, a Seattle city analyst, said problems with those sites were discovered as the review progressed. For example, she said, the Myers Way property turned out to have a wetlands area that was more extensive than initially believed, reducing the amount of buildable space.
Now the bad news--for Shoreline, or Redmond, or Bellevue, is that it's now their problem. No word exactly on why jail construction is an appropriate method of economic stimulus for an in-the-toilet economy. Perhaps a place to put all of those people who might steal bread? Maybe someone in one of those three towns might know.
In the meantime, this location is still on the roster: Highland Park Way SW and West Marginal Way SW.
3 comments:
It may be a convenient opinion that everyone who is incarcerated was just trying to "steal bread" to feed their family. The truth, from someone who works with inmates every day and actually is concerned with their health and well-being, is that most of them have personality disorders and are extremely lazy and manipulative. Most are not "evil", some are. I.e. the individual who kidnapped Shasta and her brother from Coeur d' Alene, ID after killing their mother, raped and killed her brother and raped her in Montana and, to this day has zero remorse. There is, unfortunately, a dire need for institutions to contain these people and to protect the rest of society. It's just an easy "bleeding heart", uneducated reaction to assume that they are all unjustly accused. Thank the supreme being, whoever you believe him/her to be, that some there are those of us out there to protect you and put ourselves in harms way to keep you safe.
Except for one thing: this new jail is supposed to hold low level misdemeanor offenders, not rapists and kidnappers
So, you would rather have the low level offenders housed in the same place as the violent offenders? It is much safer for them to have a lower security level facility.
I already know your reply too, you think that they shouldn't be in jail at all right? Then what is the disincentive to not commit crimes in the first place? The fact is if you commit a crime, you need to learn to take responsibility for your actions and do your time.
Think on this official philosophy; "Inmates are in jail "as" punishment, not "for" punishment."
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