Political Quotes

“my amendment prohibits the authorization of funds to privatize the Federal prison facilities located at Yazoo City, MS, and Forrest City, AR. Mr. President, recent administration proposals regarding the privatization of Federal prison facilities has created a unique problem for Federal prison facilities located in Yazoo City, MS, and Forrest City, AR. I offer this amendment today as a fair and equitable solution to allow the Federal Government to meet its obligations to two communities while not impeding the policy objectives of the administration. Quite a few years ago, a small community in my home State, Yazoo City, and a similar community in Arkansas, called Forrest City, competed with many other communities in our region of the country to site Federal prison facilities in their communities. Yazoo City and Forrest City were successful in their efforts. Each community now has a low and minimum security Federal prison facility ready to begin operation in early 1996. The two facilities are similar in other ways, also. Each site has land and infrastructure in place to accommodate additional medium and high security facilities which the Bureau of Prisons had indicated were a very real possibility for the future. Both communities made substantial financial investments to enhance their respective sites with the understanding that doing so would increase their chances of gaining additional facilities.”