Cash for Convicts

Conn Carroll / August 25, 2009

If you thought Cash for Clunkers was terrible public policy, just wait till you hear the latest from Massachusetts:

Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates – and now red-faced feds want it back.

“Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running the asylum in Washington,” U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Now it appears they are being compensated for their efforts.” (more…)