Comments about ‘Relocation may ignore public's interest’

Skull valley would be a great place. It has it's own night light.

I know this will sound like hyperbole, but it's actually a fact - the legislators who want to relocate the prison are doing so for only one reason - personal financial gain. There's a huge pile of money to be made by turning the prison property over to real estate developers, and the public's interests in keeping the prison where it is doesn't even register on their greedy little brains.

Why do you keep re-electing them?

I got an idea....

Make the DEVELOPER build the new prison FIRST.
Then, the State can sell him the property.

Trust me, we do it the other way around....
The State and the tax-paying public will end up getting shafted.

Businessmen only do things when they can get something for nothing, or next to nothing.

Since Utah is likely to need more prison space, due to increasing population, and moral corruption, perhaps the state should buy a significant amount of land (I like the Skull Valley suggestion) and begin building a new satellite prison that could be expanded into a primary prison later on. This would mean stop building on the present site.

More republican math is not needed. What, another mall? Outlet stores?

Don't let them do it to you. They privatized prizons here and now they just find more reasons to fill them.

Developers run this state in large part. Their rule is particularly acute at the local level - there nothing is done without the approval of the developer. The local politicos owe their positions to him and the electorate is so besotted with authority they never question what goes on. Can things be different? I hope so, by I very much doubt it.

Skull valley would be perfect. The Indian tribe could sell it to Utah, ending the threat of another nuclear waste site moving in. It's isolated, yet within driving range of many communities, and prison breaks would be resolved quickly.