Surprised the sheriff wasn't run out on a rail for making inmates work a chain gang.
Next time, arrest the vagrants and make them clean up their mess.
Surprised the sheriff wasn't run out on a rail for making inmates work a chain gang.
Next time, arrest the vagrants and make them clean up their mess.
My county has a Sheriff's Department inmate work crew that mows lawns for churches and others that ask.
The inmates volunteer, it gets them out of the county lockup for the day.
One cannot force the inmates to work, to do such would be indentured servitude.
I’m old enough to remember actual chain gangs, working on the side of the road swinging sling blades. The prison camp a few miles from us had a hot box for unruly prisoners (just like in Cool Hand Luke). The irony is that the prison camp, in NW Fla, was located under beautiful oak trees next to a bay, it’s prime land now and my sister has a nice home only a few hundred yards from where the camp was located.
I’m glad to hear that Democrats are finding jobs. They will have to pay rent going forward don’t you know.
That looks like a debris pile of about 6 homeless people.
Yeah but can they eat 50 eggs in an hour?
Homeless people left this?
Year ago in the town I grew up in, people receiving town assistance would work for the town highway department. They’d arrive at 8 am, and work 8 hrs a day, at minimum wage, until they had worked off their town payment, which was usually 4 days a week. It was a great program, and got them used to getting up for work at 8 am, and actually working. It also gave them some self-respect in that they were doing something meaningful for their money.
That’s been going on down here forever.
They aren’t ‘chain gangs’ in the old movie sense...hasn’t been so in some time.
Our public roads and right of ways are routinely kept clean by DOC prisoners. This is voluntary labor (low risk inmates) and from what I hear there is a waiting list to be on these clean up crews. They too wish to be outdoors. The monotony of jail life is broken up and in some locales reduction of sentences is applied for number of days working on these crews.
The sheriff there, Wayne Ivey, is a great guy. He’s a lot like Polk county’s Grady Judd. My son is a deputy there.
“Takin’ it off here, boss!”
Brevard County, Florida ping.