--***--So I am flipping through Yahoo articles and I come across this little marvel:
http://news.yah oo.com/north-carolina-death-ro w-inmate-writes-letter-life-15 2637993--abc-news.html
"A convicted murderer on death row in North Carolina wrote a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper about his life of "leisure" in prison and making a mockery of the legal system.
Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009 and was sentenced to death on Nov. 18, 2011.
Hembree, 50, is on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., but he's not looking for any pity in the letter he sent to The Gaston Gazette.
"Is the public aware that I am a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV in the A.C., reading, taking naps at will, eating three well balanced hot meals a day," Hembree asked in the letter. "I'm housed in a building that connects to the new 55 million dollar hospital with round the clock free medical care 24/7."
He also asks if the public knows that the chances of his "lawful murder" taking place in the next 20 years, if ever, are "very slim." "
--***--So I decided to google the prison:
http://hamptonr oads.com/2011/10/nc-plans-open -new-155-million-prison-hospit al
"In her 36-year career working in North Carolina's prisons, Chief Operating Officer Jennie Lancaster has not had occasion to show off a big new inmate medical center.
She beamed Wednesday as she led a tour of a new $155 prison hospital and mental health unit in Raleigh. The spacious five-story addition to Central Prison has beds for 336 patients.
It will replace a hot, cramped and crumbling infirmary dating to the 1960s that is set to be bulldozed.
"Just as health care costs have risen in the community, they have risen for us," said Lancaster, who has been involved with planning the new hospital for more than 12 years. "Disease doesn't discriminate, whether it's cancer or cardiovascular disease. We are obliged to provide care for those inmates.""
"...Such care, paid for by taxpayers, is very expensive. The inmates must also be chained to their beds and accompanied at all times by correctional officers, leading to high staff overtime and transportation costs...."
--***--Pleas e ask me how sorry I am I decided to dig into this...
--***--I wonder if the happiest people on earth, in the index I posted on the other thread for 2011 listing the US as number 4, didn't take a poll of our prisoners instead of the rest of us. You know, since we are paying for their life of leisure as they await punishment that will never come while they have better lives behind bars then we do on the outside.
--***--Our lives have become mockery at the hands of murderers. What's the point of capital punishment if it ensures room and board to heinous criminals on our tax dollars?
**--NOTE--** To find/read articles copy and paste and then go through the link and remove the extra spaces (see eg below).
http://hamptonr oads.com/2011/10/nc-plans-open -new-155-million-prison-hospit al
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