2 Alaska State Troopers Killed (Anchorage, Nenana: 2015, crimes, house)

[Dakster]

Met - What do you think of "chain gangs" - obviously not done the same way as was done in years past. Here we use State Prisoners to clean the highways... And there is one prison that operates a dry cleaning business. Not for person-use, more for businesses that need commercial dry cleaning like hotels.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by Dakster

Met - What do you think of "chain gangs" - obviously not done the same way as was done in years past. Here we use State Prisoners to clean the highways... And there is one prison that operates a dry cleaning business. Not for person-use, more for businesses that need commercial dry cleaning like hotels.

I don't know. The DMV in Oregon is largely staffed by inmates of the women's prison, which seems like a good idea until you factor in that this took a lot of jobs away from the citizens of Salem.

[Dakster]

They used to make license plates here... But no more, automated now.

No one wants to pick up highway trash for less that it costs to run some prisoners up and down the highways. So no job losses on that end. The only people getting paid are the corrections officers.

In some way, prisoners should help pay for the cost of incarceration even if it does take away some entry level jobs.

It isn't an easy question to answer. And some of it depends on what is going in the local community. As in some smaller towns, maybe the locals would want a job cleaning up a park or a roadside because without it, there isn't anything else.

And obviously only certain inmates should be used. As Johnny Lifer has a huge incentive to break out.

[MattieJensen]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

What a dumb idea.

You have a better one?

You probably rather have them lounging around in prison for the rest of their lives - on your taxpaying dime?

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by MattieJensen

You have a better one?

You probably rather have them lounging around in prison for the rest of their lives - on your taxpaying dime?

Yeah this works for me much better than turning them loose with ammo in foreign countries. A lot of the front lines that you speak of contain significant numbers of children and other innocents.

I imagine that your plan would also serve to escalate international tensions to the extent that yet even more of my tax dimes were going toward scrapping for patches of oil in some desert on the other side of the world. No thanks.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by Dakster

They used to make license plates here... But no more, automated now.

No one wants to pick up highway trash for less that it costs to run some prisoners up and down the highways. So no job losses on that end. The only people getting paid are the corrections officers.

In some way, prisoners should help pay for the cost of incarceration even if it does take away some entry level jobs.

It isn't an easy question to answer. And some of it depends on what is going in the local community. As in some smaller towns, maybe the locals would want a job cleaning up a park or a roadside because without it, there isn't anything else.

And obviously only certain inmates should be used. As Johnny Lifer has a huge incentive to break out.

It really isn't something I think much about. The only people I know who have been in jail are a couple of seiners who gave into temptation and ran drugs out of SE Asia or such such dumbass thing. They were featured on a PBS program and spent 10 or so years in club Fed.

[Dakster]

Originally Posted by MattieJensen

You have a better one?

You probably rather have them lounging around in prison for the rest of their lives - on your taxpaying dime?

IMHO, There is a difference between turning them loose with guns in a foreign country and having them do "work" or labor in the USA.

I don't know how I feel about the former, but the latter I don't have a problem with.

[Metlakatla]

We'd also be putting our own service men and women at risk by adopting the foreign solution.

A lot of things that may sound good while in the ideation phase really aren't terribly practical.

[MattieJensen]

Keep US troops here in America to protect us and our borders. Put our "mercs" - prisoners to work overseas. What's the worst that could happen to them? Death, dismemberment, torture - yes, the reason they were imprisoned!

[Dakster]

How about going over to the other side only to attack the US again? How about attacking a neutral country only to have them become our enemy?

That is just two bad outcomes off the top of my head.