Thursday, November 17, 2005

Did Budget Cuts Allow Iowa Prisoners Escape?

Reuters: Two convicted murderers were able to climb over a wall and escape from an IA prison because budget cuts left some guard towers unmanned, a state senator said on Tues. Officials at the IA Penitentiary in Fort Madison were unable to staff all of the prison's towers because of a lack of state funding and were relying instead on an electronic wire "that was supposed to take care of all the security problems," said Rep Eugene Fraise, (D-IA) The 2 men escaped on Monday night by tossing a rope on the wall around the facility, and police in IA, IL and MO were still hunting for them on Tues. Budget cuts haven't hurt the states, huh? Yeh right. And it is so pro-life of the GOP to hack into state funding so that convicted MURDERERS can escape, no?
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