Maybe not relevant to overcrowding but it’s time to bring back convict labor/chain gangs. Put them to work improving roads, digging drainages, clearing underbrush etc, instead of sitting in their cells fashioning shanks out of melted toothbrush handles.
Wait a minute! That sounds like those imaginary, ‘shovel-ready jobs’ 0bama is always yappin’ about! ;)
it’s time to bring back convict labor/chain gangs...Can’t. The public Unions say using prisoners steal jobs from Union members. We had Co. prisoners sweeping downtown streets, eliminating grafitti and emptying downtown trash receptacles. The Unions bitched, so we no longer have sidewalks swept, graffiti is everywhere and the trash stinks everywhere downtown.