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CDCR can Mobilize over a Fence Story but Ignores Sick Prisoners

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How do CDC Employees from other areas access the buildings?

How do building maintenance staff access the buildings and breezeway?

Are there emergency procedures in case of fire or other hazard requiring fast egress?

How do emergency services access the breezeway in case of emergency?

Have these and other plans been approved by the fire marshal?

I suspect that many of the homeless in the neighborhood were created by CDCr due to practices that break so many people in mind, body and spirit in the cruel and filthy prisons. The homeless are often former prisoners, veterans, young people who can't afford housing due to a few missed paychecks, elderly who have no affordable housing as well as mentally and medically ill people. My opinion piece simply pointed out that these expenditures would have been more wisely spent on a homeless shelter. and whatever the total costs actually are for the steel fences, it's way too much.

Why not stack the CDCr employees in office space the same way that they do to the prisoners whose bondage pays their salaries. Now fair is fair. They have them living three bunks high at many prisons throughout the state so that the people who sit in these offices all day can have an over-paying job.

We are never going to know the true cost of the fences, their electronics, card readers, labor contracts, but all those questions should be answered. And I certainly am not wrong in asking the questions.

CDCR is claiming that the fence is only 7' high, the original video shows that it towers high above the entrance doors to the building. Why are they disseminating such easily provable lies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvPG40SIvk

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