… By many measures, Salem reaps benefits from stable prison jobs and spinoff work for area businesses — nearly 200 of which provide supplies and services for the lockups. "Let's face it: Salem can sort of whine about being the penal colony but the other side of that is that it benefits from hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of family-wage jobs and that economic influx of cash," said Mary Botkin, public-safety lobbyist for the Oregon branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest union representing prison employees.
Happy to be a prison town? Statesman Journal statesmanjournal.com
Monday, February 27, 2012
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
This blog is created to not only keep you informed, but to receive feedback from you as well. Please feel free to comment on any posts. We reserve the right to remove any post we deem inappropriate in language and/or content.