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How about this for a story.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and a few union leaders for prison guards and even a few lawmakers took a tour of the ultra- high-security Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado and Gonzales came out and said that the prison was up to par. Now, that's a load off my mind!
The leaders of the guard's union said that more staffing is needed even with all of the high tech bullshit that is installed in these Supermax prisons because the camera's and such things cannot help to much during a riot.
My whole reason for bringing this up was basically just to be smart-ass and to tell Gonzales that I hope the place met all of his requirements and that maybe he should start looking for a retirement spot within the complex.
Supermax union president Barbara Batulis, who accompanied Gonzales, said terrorists housed there still are able to communicate with followers in Spain and Iraq.
Union leaders have begun mobilizing a lobbying blitz to demand $500 million from Congress to hire more guards nationwide, said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, who accompanied Gonzales along with U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, also raised questions.
Federal prison chiefs "have to do more. They have to recognize ... we need to have much more linguistic capability in Arabic" in order to understand and assess terrorist-prisoner communications, said Salazar, D-Colo.
In Supermax, assaults on guards have increased and convicted terrorists seem to be communicating more by shouting between their cells, while three new interpreters struggle to monitor phone calls and recreation-area communications as well as screen mail, guards and union officials said.
Threats to kill staff members have increased to about 110 last year, double the number in 2005, said chief union steward Bob Snelson, who represented guards last fall before an arbitrator who found dangerous understaffing.
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