WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO GET RID OF THEM BOTH?
The American Civil Liberties Union is like a plague that sucks the life out of everything it touches. South Carolina’s Department of Corrections chief Jon Ozmint is about the same, only on a much smaller scale.
But I never figured the two would end up joining forces.
Especially not on demands for an audit of the DOC. And especially not after Ozmint did everything in his power to taint a previous survey by the Legislative Audit Council.
The ACLU’s letter requesting the federal review went to Sanford because the Corrections Department is one of his Cabinet agencies. Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said the governor is considering the request, but no decision has been made.
Corrections Department spokesman Josh Gelinas said the ACLU’s request isn’t out of line with what the prison agency has wanted for months. [Emphasis added] When the council began working on the audit, Gelinas said the department encouraged it to get independent experts familiar with prison operations and specifically encouraged the council to work with the National Institute of Corrections, a Department of Justice agency that gives state prisons technical assistance. [JIM DAVENPORT - AP]
I don’t really understand the rationale behind this. Ozmint fights tooth and nail when the state legislature tries to survey his department, but he jumps on board when the ACLU calls for an audit. Huh?
And this guy is part of a Republican cabinet. What the hell is going on in this state?
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You are finally asking what is going on in South Carolina ????? Well, it appears we have been ” couped” by an evil group of people in my humble opinion, where right is wrong, up is down, left is right and the permanent date is 1984. Better description anyone???
I’m so confused about why some people are rabidly anti-ACLU. I mean, their job is to protect civil liberties, free speech, and (non-government sponsored) religious expression. Although you can say their positions are left-leaning, they’re brutally consistent: they’ve defended Rush Limbaugh, the “God Hates Fags” church, desegregating schools, evolution, and a large number of other issues.
The ACLU is pushing for an independent audit of the system- isn’t that exactly the same thing you’re pushing for?
For a State Employee who works at the Dept. of Corrections, I am often angered by how he runs this agency. When staff complain about the problems, we are called elitist and
problem makers, rather than problem solvers, and I have a letter from here which
states such and goes so fat as to say, if I don’t like how something is done, to come to
Columbia and re-write policy. (Which was ment to say in our opinion, SHUT UP)