Comments on: Coming Monday: Special Report – State Prisoners Working

By: gator fan

gator fan — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:14:28 +0000

I see that truck out working with the inmates all the time.

By: CO

CO — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:00:37 +0000

Inmate work crews need to expand. Anything from simply picking up trash for 8 hours a day to clearing land/landscaping public property. Inmates should even start making low cost clothes and items for Americans who need them. These items should be avaliable at extremely low cost since the Inmates making them would be doing it for free. If they choose not to work, they should be subject to disciplinary confinement. Inmates with high custody work inside, inmates with lower custody levels work outside. They need to not only do time for the crime they committed, but GIVE back by working and doing something productive.

Prisions will need more CO’s that are better trained, better equipped and are in somewhat physical shape. The investment should not only be in technology/cameras, but better staff and training to handle large inmate movements.

By forcing prisioners to work, taxpaying citizens would not only SEE the tax dollars at work, it would justify paying taxes. You may even be the beneficiary of your tax dollars if you hit rock bottom.

Private prisions are merely a return to “scratch the back” of the governors friends/business partners who helped him get into office. Please, don’t be so gulliable and naive.

By: bravo

bravo — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:20:00 +0000

Changing to private facilities does not necessarily mean that there is a net loss of jobs. Private prisons will need correctional officers ,too.

By: bigk

bigk — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:46:27 +0000

Hey Dudley , we’ve always had prisoner work crews even before “Your” Govenor took over. “Your” Govenor wants to privatize the prison system and those guards would not be allowed to take out work crews. We’d lose the work crews and have to hire private companies at taxpayers expense. True it would create jobs but it would cost 4000-5000 certified corrections officer jobs. Work crews are a good thing but not the govenors plan. Just saying

By: Oak Grove Bud

Oak Grove Bud — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:40:40 +0000

Now put the county convicts out on the roadways picking up garbage.

By: K

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:03:06 +0000

I guess “how much they are saving” the taxpayers is also how much that could be put back into the private sector to create jobs..

By: Dudley Herrington

Dudley Herrington — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:25:14 +0000

I am glad that OUR Govenor and Legislature has the Back Bone to put the State
prisoners to work. Our taxes should not feed a bunch of lawless people who
want to beat the System of “Working for a Living”.
Congratulations !!!!

By: huh

huh — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:04:35 +0000

America jails more of its own citizens then any other country in the world. It doesnt work, because if it did we would have the lowest crime rate in the world.

By: bratt res

bratt res — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:44:59 +0000

At least they are worked and not doing anything. I think the whole prison should be forced to work.