Using Inmate Labor to save taxpayers money

Sun, 02/01/2009 - 1:24pm
By: Bill the Cat

Why is it that many counties in our state and across the nation are smart enough to use inmates for some governmental services and Fayette County is not? Inmates are sentenced to jail correct? Why do we allow inmates to just sit in our county jail and watch tv, play cards, checkers, chess, and basketball. They get 3 meals a day, a cell with warm blankets, showers, and medical care. How much are we spending on employees salaries, benefits, and raises just to cut grass, plant flowers, do manual labor on projects that just require sweat and hard work? Other counties use inmates to do such task. They cut the grass at county facilities, parks, ballfields, and government property. They work on grass cutting crews that ride tractors cutting the roadways. They are assigned as manual labor workers on road crews. These are just a few examples where Fayette Co. could take advantage of these people by saving thousands of tax payer dollars and making the inmates work to repay society and not keep free loading. Heck, if i were homeless, I could get 3 squares,a cot, indoor plumbing, a roof over my head, medical care, and entertainment provded by the county just by committing some minor crimes. Please tell me how not hiring one guard to oversee a work detail is not more practical than having entire departments of paid employees. Let use our resources and stop waisting money to pay for simple jobs. Other counties do this, Mr. Commissioners I ask, Why can't Fayette Co. do the same?

Bill the Cat

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Submitted by carbonunit52 on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 12:43pm.

Here is a story from PA, a real heartwarming tale about two scumbag judges and a whole passel of spineless wimps who did nothing about it for years: LINK

What a nice state to be from.

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Submitted by Okie on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:19am.

If you had been driving on Sandy Creek road last week, you would have seen the inmates working at the new Bypass site. They were out there clearing away the leftover trees and limbs that were cut down for the road.

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Submitted by carbonunit52 on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 5:50am.

The United States has 6% of the world's population and 25% of the world's inmates. We have too many people in lock down that do not need to be in lock down. As for the ones that should be there, I have no problem with keeping them busy, preferably around the prison. I would not like to be in a position or have a business that has to complete with prison labor, nor would I care to see the arrest rates go up when there is a special project that comes along, say like picking crops or clearing the right-of-way for a new road.

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Submitted by Cyclist on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 5:47pm.

Along with the losers below lets make some space available for these low life scum.
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Submitted by Cyclist on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:50pm.

losers.
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Submitted by carbonunit52 on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 8:25pm.

What excellent inmate material! I doubt they would amount to much as landscapers though, and would it be fair to take them away from their own neighborhoods?

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