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On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:44:52 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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Why would you want convicts displacing skilled workers "outside the
wire"??
That makes no sense, esp. in this economy.

They work all the time outside the wire just not in any kind of
skilled trade. You have journeymen tradesmen cutting grass, picking up
trash and weeding along the side of the road.
The state does it because people are not willing to pay the taxes
necessary to hire people and citizens want these inmates to earn their
keep.

Are they displacing skilled workers????? That was the question, which you
seem to acknowledge the answer is no.

I think you're jumping to lots of conclusions. Trade groups? All trade
groups? How about regular citizens? Perhaps we should let rapists out to
work on grade schools? Come on.

It is the trade group that lobbies the state legislature. Which one
would all depend on the trade in question.
They can cut the grass in the playground and pick up trash, they just
can't screw in a light bulb.

So?



Inmates are not required to work inside. Yet, they volunteer for it all
the
time.

They do get to volunteer to work and they do get paid for it but they
have no real control about where they work or what they do beyond
their influence with the super. If you **** him off you might be
cleaning out grease traps all day or you can just go back and sit in
your cell..

And your point?

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Nom=de=Plume