One cannot force the inmates to work, to do such would be indentured servitude.
Community service as part of a plea is not indentured servitude?
Clause 1 of the 13th amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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Great classic song by the immortal Sam Cooke. Chain Gang.
Soundtrack for this thread.
The ones I am familiar with is voluntary. They get a stipend for doing it and they do it, like the other said, to get out for the day.
All county. The only state is when there are short timers who are within 6 months of getting out.
They take off? It is an automatic additional time tacked on and back into the clink they go.