Voice of the People: Dec. 10, 2012

(WTNH) -- Last week News 8 told you about the state's plan to convert a closed nursing home into a nursing home for elderly prison inmates. Folks in that Rocky Hill neighborhood are not having it and it's got all of you sounding off. Here's tonight's Voice of the People.

Pamela from Farmington said, "I am one who don't agree with having inmates in a neighborhood like Rocky Hill. I do not agree with it at all. No I don't. People buy their homes and they don't want to be neighbors to the incarcerated."

Felecia from Bristol said, "if they're elderly inmates they can't even run, they're probably bed-bound, there's no reason why that would affect the neighborhood."

Anonymous from Milford said, "I don't think a 60-year-old or 90-year-old dying of cancer is going to threaten their life in any way, shape or form. I'm sure they're going to put up a fence to make sure the geriatrics don't chase them down."

Claudia from North Haven said, "if you're going to put these inmates there you need to have a very big fence. A nice six-foot fence so that if they wonder out they are contained in a six-foot fence. Like a fortress fence that cannot be climbed. Not like a chain-link fence, this way if they get out the back door or the windows they could only go to the fenced in yard."