Posted: 6/22/2008 6:14:44 AM EDT
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I love my country and fully support the US military but there's something about this program that really feels wrong to me. Does my tin foil need another layer or is the John with the long mustache sitting in the chair against the wall? Anyone else think this program could be abused in a political way? www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Inmate_Labor_Program Again I'm not bashing the military and responders to this post should not do so either. |
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I think prisoners should work but within logical limits. Like making license plates and jeans. There is a lot of things that could go wrong with prisoners being used as a general purpose workforce. Back in Oregon they make the maps and do the Geographic Information System work. So some politician could be touting some data or maps showing some enviromental problem and everyone could be thinking it was made by the most educated. It could also be made by prison labor. They work under the name "Oregon Enterprise" there. Theyb also do lots if graphic arts work, moving the paperwork around the state capital, they bget rented out to companies etc. There is even cases of women falling in love with who they think are state workers then finding out there actually prisoners. Now if you were to go with lets say what if those whith bad intentions got ahold of a program like this, lots of possibilities. Just arrest everyone and its a instant communist state. There already renting them out. Just have goverment get eager to give out life sentences for things like owning a gun. Then when renting out the prisoners have it be a life time lease and its the days of slavery again. The big problem like something like a prison work proram that gets carried away is all thye infrastructure gets put in place for others to carry out terrible ideas. Here is there website http://www.oce.oregon.gov/ |
There have been federal prison camps on Air Force installations for years. I was stationed at Maxwell AFB in Alabama and the federal inmates did everything from cut grass to push paperwork. I suppose if you have to feed an inmate, they might as well have to work. 
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My question is... what exactly is it about this program that 'feels wrong to you'? |
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I was on a Navy base where all of the lawn work was done by inmates. All of the inmates were screened to ensure that they did not have any history of violence, etc. We mainly had the white collar type criminals. They worked for about 15 cents an hour and were happy to be there. If the prisoners weren't there to do the work, it would have been servicemembers cutting the grass. I'm all for the prisoners doing it. |
BINGO. |
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Would you rather have them sit in their cells & watch free TV, lift weights & swap 'how to be a better criminal' stories? Seriously... Paranoia way way too tight... Just like folks who think that because the military practices crowd control & urban ops that the government is 'planning' to use them to forcibly stay in power, etc...  Completely ignoring that we have 2 wars on where the military has to do urban crowd control & operations.... |