Use ‘tent city jails’
Our jail and prison overcrowding cannot wait for billions in funding to be allocated and expended.
Just because former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio became infamous for profiling and civil rights abuses does not mean that he has never had a good idea.
Another deep look should be taken into his concept of “tent city jails,” given their low cost of construction and monitoring, and the friendly climate we have here in Hawaii for such a concept.
Such facilities do not have to be operated abusively. Given the legality of camping as a permitted activity on agriculturally zoned land, county permissions for this kind of facility should be easy. Why isn’t this being given a look for low-risk, minimum-security prisoners to clear out the overcapacity overload in our more standard jail and prison facilities?
Isn’t this inattention just a closed-minded, partisan political roadblock?
Richard Stancliff
Makiki
‘Bold new strategy’
Pro-life people are now on the offensive after decades of being on the defensive. There are currently five states that moved forward with very strong pro-life laws. These five states are Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi. More such initiatives will be forthcoming in other states. We will push forward!
This bold new strategy began with pro-life President Donald J. Trump’s victory over “pro-death” Hillary R. Clinton in the presidential election of 2016!
We are no longer moving backwards while pro-death advocates run rabid throughout our nation, spreading the murdering of innocent children before they are born. We are taking the fight to them to save helpless children lives.
Abortion is murdering babies!
Our goal is and always has been to take this political fight for the rights of pre-born children all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where we believe the genocide ruling of Roe vs. Wade will be overturned. This political battle will then go down to the individual states, where we continue to stand up for the rights of pre-born babies to be born and have a life of their own to live in freedom.
James G. Borden
Hilo