The Utah State Prison is shown with housing developments in the background in Draper Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
Brian Nicholson, Deseret News
The prison is in a place that no one wanted when it was built — the worst land in the Salt Lake Valley.
Now it's the best land.
The people who want this land are nothing but greedy. We need to stand up and tell them to find someplace else to build. The people who work at the prison can get there easily, and they don't want to move elsewhere.
We don't need a new prison. If the people that live by the prison don't like it there, they should move.
May Morgan
Salt Lake City
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I would be ok if land developers want to move the prison. Unfortunately, they want the rest of us to pay for it.
My demand is that they pay up front for the costs of the new prison, transporting all the inmates, and the initial start up More..
Utah's GOP are really socialists. Their motto: Socialize expenses; privatize profits.
Nothing new here.
Real Maverick and Howard Beal have addressed the central issues.
Let me also add that the real estate developers who salivate at the money they see in this land should also be required to pay for the extra and significantly larger More..