Galveston officials: Feds blocking generators at jail

[douglas9]

Source: Houston Chronicle

GALVESTON — Frustration was brewing at the Galveston County jail this morning, but not from the inmates.

Dudley Anderson — the architect of the Galveston County Justice Center, which includes the jail, courts and law enforcement offices — said the Federal Emergency Managment Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers are letting rule books get in the way of supplying generators and, thus, air flow to the estimated 1,000 inmates in the jail.

"We've been trying to get some power hooked up inside the justice center," Anderson said. "There's a small one in there now, but they need power."

While President Bush was inside the facility talking with officials this morning, Anderson and other contractors were outside complaining that the government is getting in the way.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6004686.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Officials complain government getting in the way while bush gets in the way

[TomInTib]

2. A couple of my sons' friends are in that jail.

One of them led write-in campaigns for me in the last two Presidential Elections. I just heard about that a few days ago.

[sasquatch]

4. What're they in for?

[TomInTib]

5. They are awaiting transfer

to Federal for drugs and counterfeiting.

[sasquatch]

9. Males or Females?

[TomInTib]

10. Males.

And they can definitely handle themselves.

[Patiod]

3. I had been posting about that jail

they opted to force the prisoners to ride out the storm

And it was a JAIL - so we're not talking murderers and rapists.

[Cal Carpenter]

6. Would it have been more acceptable if it were

murderers and rapists? Or all the nonviolent offenders who are in prison for drugs, for example?

Sorry, can't help but ask...

[Patiod]

8. No, but people were afraid that they were too dangerous to move

It's not about the value of their lives, it's about the downside risk of potential escape

(this is exactly why I so rarely venture into GD)

[superconnected]

11. Yep, there are drunks, trespassers, shop lifters and people who didn't show up for court in there.

Oh, and reckless drivers and people who got arrested in domestic disputes.

[orleans]

7. from your link:

Anderson said that, without air circulating in the closed facility in this climate, mold and mildew can start growing everywhere. The lack of water and properly working toilet facilities exacerbates the problem, he said.

He said he was supposed to meet a FEMA representative this morning, but he was a little late and they left. With no working clocks on the island, he said, it surprised him they couldn't wait a few minutes.

what a bunch of fema jerks

[dgibby]

12. Another of the world's greatest lies

I'm from FEMA and I'm here to help!:mad: :puke: