Tax money not wasted

Monday, August 11, 2008 12:40 AM EDT

on correctional facility
Wow, nice letter and totally expected, especially when written by an inmate's wife, Joyce Hackett Smith-Moore. It sounds more like bitterness, than money consciousness.

Instead, ask the loved ones of the correctional officers if it's truly a 2 to 1 ratio when their spouse comes home - battered and beaten, or covered in urine and feces and degraded again. True, it might be a 2 to 1 ratio, if you consider statewide stats, covering all shifts every day in every jail. But I know in a lot of jails, it is very, very common to have one supervisor and hopefully at least three or four officers covering a yard full of 300 to 600 convicted murderers and child molesters. In any school, that doesn't equal 2 to 1.

Don't get me wrong. Is money wasted in the Department of Correctional Services? There probably is some, like taking inmates out on court trips for being denied a bigger piece of chicken. But I bet there is no more wasted than any other state agency.

But how do you put a price on the head of a civil servant willing to put his life on the line, working the worst job in the state behind the walls with convicted murderers in the worst atmosphere anyone can encounter?

Sgt. Michael E. Murray

Auburn

Murray is a New York State

Department of Corrections employee

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forrest wrote on Aug 11, 2008 10:51 PM:

" There is a young women running against Senator Nozzolio for the 54th Senate District. I believe she is from around Rochester. My only advice to her will be STAY AWAY FROM JOYCE-HACKETT-SMITH-MOORE, This woman will take you down to her level and believe me Hackket-SMITH will ruin your campaign, my advise is to take a good look before you hitch your star to any of Hackeet Smith offers. "

jlmorgansr wrote on Aug 11, 2008 5:00 PM:

" Joyce Hackett Smith will always be biased against the Department of Corrections. If you notice she never mentioned the hundreds of millions of dollars that are wasted yearly in pork spending. Instead she wants to cut corrections officers. The fact remains her beloved husband is not, nor will he ever be a positive influence for society. He is a convicted murderer, and he will never see the streets again, this is a simple fact that Ms Smith finds finds hard to accept. So in her wisdom, she attacks the people who are keeping her man away from her.
As for Senator Nozzolio, he is a staunch believer in the Department of Corrections. He believes in Law and Order, he believes like we do, in order to keep our families safe, we need to rid the street from those who would hurt our friends and families. Senator Nozzolio has dedicated his life to public service and to protecting the residents of New York State. Ms Smith has dedicated her life to a killer, and that speaks volumes about her character.
In my opinion, Mike Nozzolio should have been voted as the Senate Majority leader, because he has demonstrated time and again what it means to lead, and what it means to be a friend to Law Enforcement and to those who work day in and day out behind the prison walls. "

cm wrote on Aug 11, 2008 4:27 PM:

" Unless you know a CO personally-one really doesnt know the full details of what the job really is.
I cannot imagine encountering 1/4 of the stories I have heard --let alone WORK in there, seeing and dealing with so much more on a daily basis year after year!

with crime stats rising, the last place for cuts is at a jail or in a state prison. "

wondertwin wrote on Aug 11, 2008 1:43 PM:

" Money wasted??? The list is endless...look @ "free bus Sundays"...Twice a month convicts families are bussed from New York City to all over the state jails...all on Joe tax payer..While I'm on the visits ,lets talk about the zoo, I mean visiting room.Now I have never had the honor to be visiting a steller citizen doing time, however I have heard of fights in there {which MY loved one was injured}. Inmates and women having sex or just touching each other heavily.There are mothers and fathers visiting and children running around, but animals just think about them selves anyway...my point: there are not enough COs in the visiting room !!!An inmate "torches" his mattress and cell...he gets a new mattress...Lascas provided the convicts and families a little party for those that got their g.e.ds this pass summer...thank you Joe tax payer!!Does every inmate need 5 packages of sugar w/ each meal ??? that's what they get ,and stamps every day...a little night picky? Hmmmm..No...if the airlines can save millions by taking magazines off the planes and not painting the planes anymore ...then this Joe tax payer says cut the sugar packets to 1 a meal,pay your own bus fare, pay for you own catering, you get 1 mattress.Period "

forrest wrote on Aug 11, 2008 12:48 PM:

" SGT Murray, Hackett-Smith wears blinders like an old horse, she will B---h about anything and everything about the New York Correctional system and any one who works,supports or agrees about what Senator Nozzolio does to help the offices who work in the prison system. The true fact is her husband is in prison and is never getting out and he shouldn't ever get out. She also feels the prisoner should have jobs provided for them in the prison system and not let honest hard working people make a living which they are entitled to. May god watch over all the people who work in the correctional system and baby sit the lowlifes. "

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