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[folsom15]

I'm guessing the facility will house inmates that are doing long term sentences that might have some type of chronic illness. There are prisoners leaving the facility at a rate of 1-2 a day in an ambulance for treatment in local hospitals. Hopefully most of that will begin to stay in house for them.

I know the van brings small groups to local hospitals as well. Might the new facility mitigate that?

If you are at Mercy Folsom ER with a kid in obvious pain with a broken arm, and a prisoner comes in for treatment, guess who gets to wait? Not the prisoner..... I've seen it! I have also heard that the prisoners will fake an illness just to get out for a little field trip for the day.

[energysaver]

The medical facility is proposed to be on the Folsom prison grounds so I dont think its anything to get alarmed over.

[Bill Z]

The medical facility is proposed to be on the Folsom prison grounds so I dont think its anything to get alarmed over.

Especially if the FEDs are paying for it, that's some of CA tax money coming back home to pay our construction workers to build it, hiring our citizens to man it. Ever see the graph of hwat different states get on return for their national tax dollars, CA is at or near the lowest, i.e., most of our money ends up going to poorer states, some states I think even get a positive ROI, that's just unfair.

[camay2327]

They are concerned about bringing back traffic congestion that the new bridge is supposed to fix next year, but most prison workers do not work 8-5 Mon-Friday jobs, so it really may not do that much or anything to hurt commute hour traffic. Even those who work M-F day shifts usually do 7-3PM shifts.
Also, 1500 new employees with good salaries would be nice for the Folsom housing market.

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With 1500 new people in the prison system here in Folsom, it will also overload the sewers and we are already short on water.. ???

Traffic would be affected too. It doesn't matter the shifts, etc. It would cause a lot more traffic. Put it somewhere else where they want it...