Jail report outlines fixes for Camden

Officials at the jail paid a consulting firm to determine what to do about the problems at the jail? So they paid a consulting firm to do their job!

One option was to lease beds from other prisons or build a new prison.

Is this going to be before or after they tear down Riverfront Prison which is only a few blocks from Camden County Jail and has the space they are looking for...and it isn't right in the middle of down town.

Why not close down Camden County Jail and utilize Riverfront Prison for what it was intended to be used for and solve all their problems without spending a lot of money? Is this solution too easy or what?

Instead the overall recommendations for the prison problem in NJ is tear down Riverfront Prison even though it is one of the newer prisons in the state, close Camden County because it is overcrowded and in need of repair and build a new one?

Voters better get out and vote for a change in our leadership.

I'm glad someone else sees the stupidity of this survey and the consultants recommendations.

somethinggood wrote:

The County pays top administrators high salaries to run it but always need to spend money on consultants to tell them how to do what they are paid to do..

There is a jail on the waterfront already built that can resolve this problem ,but the idiots who run the State and County decide to tear it down for some questionable future development which no one can say for sure will be successful.What we do know is we need more jail space.Unbeleivable.

Come election day of course nothing will change and the same clowns that run things now will be in for another four years.

Lets see hire a consultant for 100,000 ,probably politically connected, to tell you what you already know the jail is overcrowded with a jail only 30 years old within a mile of the County jail ,and you are going to tear it down.Makes sense to me.