Officials in New York are reportedly eyeing a recently-closed prison as temporary housing for people displaced by superstorm Sandy and this weekâs norâeaster. The New York Post reports that state officials are considering the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island to feed and house as many as 900 victims with nowhere else to turn. âOur facilities staff have to go through it to determine what it would take to get it up and running for such a purpose,â Peter Cutler, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, told the newspaper. âOf course, the challenge is the fact that it was closed a year ago and all of the major infrastructure components, such as boilers and wastewater system, were deactivated.â As many as 40,000 New Yorkers need shelter from extreme weather events, according to city estimates. On Staten Island alone, about 5,200 people applied for temporary FEMA housing, but only about two dozen people have been successfully placed, federal sources told the newspaper. âItâs empty. They might as well use it,â said Rob Conigatti, 39, who lost his Dongan Hills home and is now staying with his extended family. âAt least they have the right facilities. You canât keep them in schools. The kids gotta go to school.â Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/0...isplaced-sandy/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Bpph5Ak0
Yeah, otherwise they might become people who don't know how to correctly speak English and think words like "gotta" are real words.