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August 19, 2010
Will Fight to Bring About Needed Reforms as Attorney General
Phoenix, AZ -- On a hot summer day in 2009 Vince Rabago joined the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs (AZCOPS) and the Arizona Correctional Peace Officers Association to stand up for common sense and speak out against turning over Arizona's inmates, and the safety of Arizona citizens, to for-profit prison corporations.
With one of the Kingman Three and his accomplice still on the lam, Vince issues the following statement:
"I am confident that the remaining fugitives, John Charles McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, will be caught. However, I'm troubled by Gov. Brewer's statement earlier this week that the escape of McCluskey and two other dangerous criminals on July 30th 'looks to be a human error, not an institutional one.' Furthermore, yesterday's escape of an inmate in Tucson and Brewer's continued silence on the matter, proves that our governor and all our state leaders, need to get focused now."
"It is most definitely an institutional error, and a profound failure of leadership, when we allow convicted murderers to be sent to lower-security, for profit prisons. Selling murderers and other hardened criminals to the lowest bidder is irresponsible and short-sighted."
"I stand firmly with Attorney General Goddard, the Democratic minority in the Legislature, correctional officers, sheriffs and police officers -- and so many others across the community -- in condemning the current system that allows convicted murderers to be housed in lower-security, for-profit prisons. As Arizona's next attorney general, I will push hard to change the laws that govern where murderers and other hardened criminals can be jailed, to ensure that 'locked up' really means locked up."
Vince Rabago is a 16-year veteran public prosecutor with experience keeping dangerous criminals behind bars and fighting to maintain the death penalty against the most egregious murderers, at the highest levels of our court system.
As Attorney General, Rabago will protect Arizonans and make sure the bad guys stay behind bars.
