http://providencedailydose.com/2008/05/16/collective-insanity/ News/Arts/Culture/Nightlife/Nonsense/Obscurities Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:34:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://providencedailydose.com/2008/05/16/collective-insanity/#comment-5298 JOE BERNSTEIN Sat, 17 May 2008 01:26:35 +0000 http://providencedailydose.com/2008/05/16/collective-insanity/#comment-5298 I am always glad I missed the transition from INS to ICE.I think they jettisoned the old fashioned common sense we had.Friends of mine who made the transition are all miserable and can't wait to retire.The last thing needed in a natural disaster is added complications. The other real problem is the privatization of detention facilities-when I was in the INS detainee deaths from medical causes were rare.Private detention companies don't do the same vetting of employees that the Feds did,and there was better oversight by management at Government facilities.I believe we used the Public Health Service to evaluate medical problems back then.Now they have some new outfit in DHS that sounds dubious. I am always glad I missed the transition from INS to ICE.I think they jettisoned the old fashioned common sense we had.Friends of mine who made the transition are all miserable and can’t wait to retire.The last thing needed in a natural disaster is added complications.
The other real problem is the privatization of detention facilities-when I was in the INS detainee deaths from medical causes were rare.Private detention companies don’t do the same vetting of employees that the Feds did,and there was better oversight by management at Government facilities.I believe we used the Public Health Service to evaluate medical problems back then.Now they have some new outfit in DHS that sounds dubious.

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