Massachusetts sheriff offers to have inmates build wall along U.S.-Mexico border

[keepemup]

If they got to reduce their sentence by working, as is usual in jail, then I don't see any problem with this. Perhaps they could get a certificate as a builder and be able to make some money upon release?

 

[Shogun]

What if they could opt to knock off time through work?

 

[David_TheMan]

So he's proposing slave labor in the United States

US only bans private slave labor, not government owned slave labor.

If you black in Mass. I hope you are reading what time it going to be

 

[无名的]

What if they could opt to knock off time through work?

If they got to reduce their sentence by working, as is usual in jail, then I don't see any problem with this. Perhaps they could get a certificate as a builder and be able to make some money upon release?

These would be acceptable to me. Prisoners voluntarily choose to do this, get paid and non-violent offenders can reduce their sentence, saving the government the inordinate amounts of money we waste per year imprisoning people. Might be a win-win.

 

[FaTaL]

build the wall with criminals, im sure they know how to build sh!t

 

[FaTaL]

I'm sure a lot of locked up dudes would welcome the chance to work and have time pass by more quickly. Forcing people to work doesn't sit right but I would imagine they'll have plenty of volunteers who want to gtfo of their cell for a little while.


Trump undercutting Mexico at every step though

and having that opportunity to escape

 

[88m3]

These would be acceptable to me. Prisoners voluntarily choose to do this, get paid and non-violent offenders can reduce their sentence, saving the government the inordinate amounts of money we waste per year imprisoning people. Might be a win-win.

or maybe we shouldn't be imprisoning non-violent offenders in the first place and saving god knows what

 

[无名的]

or maybe we shouldn't be imprisoning non-violent offenders in the first place and saving god knows what

I think drugs should be legal, so I agree.

 

[TransJenner]

US only bans private slave labor, not government owned slave labor.

If you black in Mass. I hope you are reading what time it going to be

So there's only blacks in Mass prisons

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

So there's only blacks in Mass prisons

Probable racist. Ignore him.

 

[mbewane]

The constitution allows it.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Your Constitution actually allows slavery

 

[88m3]

Your Constitution actually allows slavery

We're the freest country in the world.

 

[Devilinurear]

Your Constitution actually allows slavery

It was written by slave owners.

 

[mbewane]

It was written by slave owners.

Yeah, 200+ years ago

Y'all never updated/revised your Constitution?

 

[newworldafro]

MAGA while undercutting American jobs with prison labor .