Farms get help from Inmates (in lieu of Illigals..).

The Denver Post ^ | 7/11/2007 | Kirk Mitchell

[Heartland Mom]

Wonderful news! Everyone wins - including the inmates who learn the value of good, honest work.

[Greg F]

Agriculture isn’t a bad place for former inmates. All of their neighbors have lots of guns.

[metesky]

Back in the early sixties when I was at Ventura College (still a JC then) I volunteered with the Ventura County Fire Department for extra monthly cash. We got something like $1.85 an hour when we were fighting fires. But whenever there was a big fire, like the Black Mountain fire in '62, the low and medium security prisons like Chino and Pilot Rock would let a certain number of trustee prisoners out to help on the fire-line. IIRC, they got a day off their sentence for every day on the line.

A good deal for them and a no/low cost deal for the state.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Yes, the escape risks and the ones with non-minimum security status were in the main jail.

The minimum status inmates resided in a satellite compounds. One unit was off the main compound. There were two others, in far north Jersey one in the Stokes State Forrest and the other in High Point State Park.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

They also had GED programs and college programs if they inmates wanted to take advantage of it.

[bannie]

Teenagers used to do it.