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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from Western Maryland, and the Feds, Maryland, and the county have built prisons in the area to "rejuvenate it."  It has the opposite as it has worsened already bad schools, housing, crime, and unsavoriness.

Placing homeless shelters in the area would have a similar effect -- not from families -- but from the homeless.  If homeless advocates believe that many of the homeless are suffering form mental health issues, the least thing they need is to be dumped in an area with limited mental health and medical care, strained social welfare services, and exacerbate the petty crime problem.

My city is hanging on by its fingernails and another blow like this would put it under.   Why foist the problems created by cities on rural areas?[/quote]

Agree with this.  The Feds and Maryland built Eastern Shore Correctional in Somerset County.  All it did is bring crime to the area and also
brought a very large population of derelict men to the area that drift to Wicomico County for services when they get released. Wicomico County
never had a homeless problem until the prison was built. Why should rural areas be dumped on with the worst criminals from Baltimore.[/quote]

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