We are currently using that ugly prison ship, called the Bibby Renassance, as an accomodation vessel

Virtual currencies are not the only ones having a bad day, at least in USD-denominated terms (which for all those bullish BitCoin, or Gold, or Silver the fiat-alternative currency, not the asset, should make all the difference in the world - alas most people federal travel regulations still don't grasp the difference). Another entity that has seen better times is the terrifying accident-magnet federal travel regulations also known Carnival Cruises. Following what seemed an endless barrage of TV crews scouring Carnival cruise ships, bringing a new definition to the term " poop deck" , the inevitable has finally happened: CCL has been forced to admit that absent changing something very drastically, it is doomed. And since it can't or won't afford to spend billions on CapEx to actually repair and modernize its assets (like virtually every other S P500 company), it has done the only thing it can: crush prices, and pray to make up for this in volume and impulse purchases what it is about to lose in cruise federal travel regulations revenues. As Bloomberg federal travel regulations reports, in order to "entice" customers to come back to the good life, Carnival is now offering a cruise federal travel regulations at the low, low price of $38 a night, or less than a stay at a Motel 8.
A four-night trip on Carnival's Imagination, leaving Miami on April 22, costs $149 a person, including meals and some beverages, according to the cruise company's website yesterday. The lowest nightly rate at the budget-priced federal travel regulations Motel 6 chain was $39.99, according to an online ad.
"The prices did go down," said Manny Lubian, president of Futura Travel Inc. in Miami. "An empty ship doesn't make as much money. They'd rather have bodies in them, buying drinks and spending money."
Vance Gulliksen, a spokesman for the world's largest cruise operator, declined to comment on pricing. The Imagination's four-night itinerary includes stops in Key West, Florida, and Cozumel, Mexico, according to the website.
Immediately after the fire, cruises on the Triumph were offered as low as $319 a person for four nights, or $80 a night, after its return to service later this year. Today, the lowest advertised price for a five-night trip on the Triumph out of Galveston, Texas, with stops in Cozumel and the Yucatan, was $289, or $58 a night, for an Oct. 7 departure.
A slightly more morbid comparison indicates that it would cost US taxpayers half as much to put up incarcerated inmates on luxury cruise ships than to keep them detained in prison, which according to the Bureau federal travel regulations of Justice spent $ 74 billion federal travel regulations on corrections back in 2007 (one imagines the numbers os substantially higher now), to keep 2,419,241 inmates in federal, state and local lockup. This amounts to $84 per inmate per night, or about double what Carnival's current going rate is.
In other words, US taxpayers would benefit if the prisoners from America's overcrowded jails were merely transported to Carnival and other "luxury" cruiseliners. Yes, the number of guards would be substantially cut back and the administration would have fewer taxpayer purchased "government worker" votes going its way, but it would be a win-win for everyone else.
I keep wondering what the hell is going to happen to these millions upon millions of convicts if/when this whole thing goes all asplody. Something to ponder as it will ultimately affect everyone no matter the distance from the lock ups.
We are currently using that ugly prison ship, called the Bibby Renassance, as an accomodation vessel for workers on the Gorgon LNG project. It was repainted and towed to Western Australia about 18 months ago.
Yup, been thinkin the same thing. I hope that lack of funds eventually will result in the release of non-violent drug offenders, ridiculous california 3 strikes lifers etc, but if S trully HTF, then there could be some large jail breaks. Hmmm, tens of thousands of hardened criminals back on the streets. With vendettas against the rest of society. Buy it cheap, stack it deep. Ammo that is. And gold. And food.
Sorry, but we would have to deploy an entire fleet ;on second thought lengthening the anchor chain and lots of manacles might suffice. Lots of room in the cargo holds . Now, where do we position Corzine?
A humorous but totally unfounded comparison. People aren't trying to escape from a cruise ship (as they PAID to go along for the ride) and the passengers usually aren't inclined to harm the crew. Totally different requirements.
I would be a lot more sympathetic to Shreiif Joe's ideas if only so many people weren't serving such long sentences for such bullshit charges. Let's decriminalize a whole lot of shit first, federal travel regulations then making jail suck won't be necessary.
I get what you're saying, but you overlooked the fact that prisons federal travel regulations are downstream of the laws. Restricting crime to aggression against person and/or property would (I'm guessing) reduce prison population by 90%.
The current US system reflects a symbiotic relationship between corrupt entities: law writers, law enforcement, administratory, and 'rehabilitation' services. Might be better to think of it as one giant circle jerk.
A federal jury has found a former federal travel regulations Pennsylvania judge guilty of participating in a so-called "kids for cash" scheme, in which he received money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails over the years. federal travel regulations Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, Jr., was convicted Friday of accepting bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers operated by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western Pennsylvania Child Care. Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, are said to have received $2.6 million for their efforts. Ciavarella faces a maximum sentence of 157 years in prison, in addition to a class action lawsuit on behalf of the youths' families. For more on this story, we are joined by Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center and to Sandy Fonzo, who believes her son's suicide was related to his treatment by Ciavarella. [includes rush transcript]
Can it be a 'Poseidon Adventure' Cruise? please, please..... or maybe one traveling off the Somalian coast.... we can pay the priates to take over the ship... would be cheaper for us in the long run.
Sailing the Seven Seas with a crew from Indonesia, your cargo all over 70+, with minimum levels of bacterial control. I'm not joking when I warned my dear Grandparents off the QE2, let alone the bargain bucket end of the spectrum.
I'm sadly disappointed at the lack of snark attaching this to the infamous "floating Island" Libertarian dream; that would have been spicy. Although, I do remember a story about an inspirational 70yr old lady who lived her last years on such a vessel... She had done the math, and apparently enjoyed herself (and if you missed it, the story is true, but so is the " dying in the Ritz " London angle).
As a former risk manager for a certain large financial entity (of a central orientation) , I am going to be writing a book about savers and takers . Please don't be shocked if I say it will be critical of certain aspects of our current financial system.
The general outline of the book will be that an upcoming struggle is emerging in civil society. It will be between those who have money but lack the political and financial power to defend it, and those who have the political clout to take it.
This will happen because the capitalist system has been turned into a financialist system. The economy is no longer served by the banks and financial institutions. We are now at a point where the banks force the economy to serve them. Those who benefit are the financial class, their servants in the political class and the large international organizations such as the EU, the IMF and the World Bank. Those who suffer are the rest who are trapped in the system and cannot find the means to escape it – but they do have small amounts of saved money or equity.
Who are the savers? In short, it is those people who look to their own future and have taken decisions to set aside "value" from today and hold it for use tomorrow. This includes those with savings federal travel regulations deposits, pension funds (401K, RRSP, ISA etc) and those who have equity in their homes. It also includes those who hold small physical amounts of precious commodities such as silver, gold and palladium.
The takers are those governments with unsustainably high debt levels and high levels of unfunded future liabilities. In cooperation with them are the major international banks that have over leveraged themselves as well as supra-international institutions such as the EU.
This meme – savers and takers – will shape much of the political and economic discourse over the next few years. The existing examples of where this has occurred have been Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. How this all plays out is not clear, but there are lessons federal travel regulations to be learned about the limits of the individual and potential social unrest.
Of course, my general kind of bla, bla, blah on that topic is the same thing that goes around and around, again and again, since we are all stuck in the same rut, which is getting deeper federal travel regulations and deeper. There is no reasonable federal travel regulations chances that I can see of getting out of those ruts, other than wearing them down deeper and deeper, until we crash out through the worn out bottom of those ruts ...
The whole world is controlled by lies, backed by violence, in which the legalized lies, backed by the legalized violence, are the worst. America "leads" the world in that kind of psychotic system! Thus, the runaway incarceration rates are primarily due to the drug wars, which are the main symptom of the FACT that almost everything America is doing these days is DEBT SLAVERY, BACKED BY WARS BASED ON DECEITS.
That is how headed towards Debt Insanity, backed by more Insane War, along with martial law ... Within that context, I doubt that writing any books, or articles, much less making any comments upon those, is going to make any significant difference.
Just like every other aspect of the runaway AMERICAN INSANITY, federal travel regulations the profit from prisons industry is like the profit federal travel regulations from di