Dancin_In_Anson: violentsalvation: No it is up to the state not to use me as slave labor for private businesses, sorry they and you are too stupid or corruptible to call a spade a spade.

TFA: "You get a good, motivated worker and then when they get out of prison, many times they have a full time job waiting on them. It cures several problems at once," he said in a phone interview. "But it's never been used in production agriculture."

Owner Wayne Durrence says he has no complaints about the inmates harvesting his Vidalia onions.

"They've worked out real good," he said. "Some of them even said when they get out, they may come back and work for me, you know maybe next year. They have really worked out good."

Pretty farking stupid indeed.

You got kin in them fields huh

You know who else made a fortune off prison labor?

GAT_00: The My Little Pony Killer: which is why REHABILITATION is so important.

Working in a field is rehabilitation? How about getting them to learn an actual skill? Prisons used to do this, before we became a police state. What part of farming onions rehabilitates you? This doesn't actually help anyone except Vidalia.

It is important they get hand-on training on yanking plants out of the ground, the interactive simulator commonly known as "Super Mario Bros. 2" can only teach so much. Or something.

violentsalvation: I am guilty of a crime then they can foot the bill for my incarceration, I'm not going to work off my supposed dues slaving away in an onion field.

You are supposed to be paying your debt to society... you'll pay it any way you're told to pay it, convict!

But what's in it for you? I am sure that any parole hearings take in to account how much of a model prisoner you are when they decide. Refusing to or doing poorly at work detail are not the actions of a model prisoner.


Rehabilitated... that's just a bullshiat word.
I've spent some long nights in stir....

fyrewede: The more you know...

I reject your presentation, though it's based on actual experience and is well written because OMG EVIL GOVERNMENT SLAVERY NAZI STALIN MUST BE BUSH'S FAULT POWER TO THE OPRESSED POOR NEVER HURT A FLY PRISONERS!

Amos Quito: Marcus Aurelius: Nothing beats slave labor provided by the government. Just ask the Nazis.


Nazis my ass.

Try the Soviets.

The farkin' Nazis were amateurs.

True, but I never miss an opportunity to Godwin a thread.

Amos Quito: Nabb1: violentsalvation: AbbeySomeone: FTFA"part of the check goes toward defraying the cost of their incarceration", or something.
Yeah, clever how that worked out. How many 'favors' is this judge involved in?

That shiat bothers me. If the state decides I am guilty of a crime then they can foot the bill for my incarceration, I'm not going to work off my supposed dues slaving away in an onion field.

The state doesn't decide you are guilty. A jury does.


Most "convictions" never went to trial. They are the result of plea bargains.

Hey # 33479, made it out huh

Dancin_In_Anson: So let's see here...There are about 400 inmates in the transitional work program, Black said, although only about 10 have been working at the onion farm.

I can only assume from the comments of the all knowing and OUTRAGED here on fark that these 10 inmates are being forced, against their will, to slave away in the fields with no hope whatsoever of parlaying this experience into something worthwhile after their release.

Of course the same applies to the other 390 in the program that are working in other capacities in the program. Perhaps the state should just scrap the program altogether and just kept them in their cages instead.

The only thing that could make this better would be privatizing the prison system. As it stands the farmers and other Job Creators are paying money to the evil government to hire these laborers. With a privatized prison system one JC could pay another JC without supporting the corrupt public sector.

Dancin_In_Anson: violentsalvation: No it is up to the state not to use me as slave labor for private businesses, sorry they and you are too stupid or corruptible to call a spade a spade.

TFA: "You get a good, motivated worker and then when they get out of prison, many times they have a full time job waiting on them. It cures several problems at once," he said in a phone interview. "But it's never been used in production agriculture."

Owner Wayne Durrence says he has no complaints about the inmates harvesting his Vidalia onions.

"They've worked out real good," he said. "Some of them even said when they get out, they may come back and work for me, you know maybe next year. They have really worked out good."

Pretty farking stupid indeed.

Really. Can you imagine being dumb enough to think he'd hire you at a living wage when he could just hire cheap prison labor again next year?

TwoHead: That's a night in the box.

Some men, you just can't reach.

GAT_00: flucto: GAT_00: Ah, the wonderful free market.

It bothers you that prisoners who ask to transition to work are allowed to do so? You realize they want these jobs and are not forced, right?

How do you know it's voluntary? It doesn't say anywhere in there they volunteered.

You lack of faith is... disturbing.

Winning: So if an illegal immigrant commits a crime they could get their old job back?

an illegal immigrant HAS committed a crime. That's what illegal means.

Nevertheless your thought deserves.....

Nothing beats slave labor provided by the government. Just ask the Nazis.

cretinbob: Then quit biatching about unemployment being high and human rights in China.

Well we could cut the welfare rolls. if you are able bodied, you are working the fields

Now eating Vidalia onions is going to be political.

AbbeySomeone: FTFA"part of the check goes toward defraying the cost of their incarceration", or something.
Yeah, clever how that worked out. How many 'favors' is this judge involved in?

That shiat bothers me. If the state decides I am guilty of a crime then they can foot the bill for my incarceration, I'm not going to work off my supposed dues slaving away in an onion field.

I love Vidalia onions, so until the figure out a way to make them harvest themselves, I'm okay with this.

Then quit biatching about unemployment being high and human rights in China.