vision's Blog

More than likely this is a housing facility for offenders from different jurisdictions. There are a few of these in the area, and different cities use (pay) them to house their prisoners, as they either don't have the facilities or the manpower to take care of prisoners. They are privately owned jails.

I would think with the rise in crime in Independence that putting a prison in there would be a matter of convenience to the residents.


As far as safety goes.. My friends that live in Leavenworth, feel perfectly safe.. they say when there is a break out.. the first thing the prisoner does is get as far away from the prison as they can.... Makes sense to me.

Sheriff, true they could take most of the owners of the trailers and lock them up.

Searchingtoo, yes, but in the middle of the city, instead of the out skirts of town? Aren't there schools close around? What if one escapes? Are they prepared?

jturner30, precisely, I think the people should have been notified prior to planning, that is the sneaky politics that Reimal is known for.

They could put it in the farm areas south of 40 Hwy, there aren't as many schools there.

To bad it took blogs to get the public involved in decisions on their community.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I live in Independnece, and have 2 children that go to school here. Sheriff, it may come as a great bewilderment to both yourself and Searchingtoo, however I do not live in a trailer. I live in a home that my husband and I work hard for, we are not on drugs nor are any of us criminals! The proposed facility is extremely close to a high school that our son walks to daily, and I am quite concerned about that. NO Vision, it didn't take a news story or blog to get us involved, we received info about it from the Neighbors of Winner Road Assn. before the news story hit, and are fully planning on attending the City Planning Commission meeting about it on Tuesday. Searchingtoo, how impudent of you to assume that it would be convienent for those of us who live in Independence to put a correctional facility here! We are working hard to improve the city for not only our generation, but our children's generation also. So as for the 'what difference would it make' comment, that is quite inflammatory in my opinion. Some of us want to make it a better place to live. Thank you jturner to state that it should be up to those of us who live in the area to decide if we want something like that in our backyard or not. Personally, I think it should be built in Blue Springs or Lees Summit but of course that would be completely out of the question, now wouldn't it? Let's all presume that the residents of Independence all live in trailer parks, and are of a criminal fiber. Sorry to break your stereotype folks, but that is simply not true.

I think Independence residence have little excitement so this brings them a sense of doing something, I wonder if someone has figured out that they have been used as part of the game plan?

Let's see now KCMO and KCKS covers the West, Independence covers the East, Grandview covers the South West, St. Joseph covers the far North, Liberty has too many Italians and would figure the game out too quickly. Still working or the process in Lee's Summit almost have all points covered, yeap, Mr-X, "Big-Shell". Smut