[Born Conservative]

I've heard of prisoners getting vocational training in prison, but this is riduculous!

[PeterPrinciple]

"At the time, it was good for everybody, I guess. ... It got us out of our cells, out of the jail and doing something.

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If the administrators had appropriate authority for this, then ok by me but it sounds like security was a little too relaxed.

Again, there is a bias to the story and I am not sure we have all the info.

[Mark was here]

I have no problem if inmates want to pass the time being useful staying out of trouble.

Threatening inmates with "the hole" or a "parole hit" is totally wrong, and the offenders belong behind bars.

[nothingnew]

Were any of them crackerjack accountants? SHAWSHANK!

FMCDH

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[lelio]

"One day when I was on my way to work, I saw an inmate with (Lt.) Frank Chiarelli's car at the car wash on Green Ridge Street," one former guard said. The inmate was serving a sentence for murder, he added.

Everyone involved should go to prison.

Jay Saunders, a former guard at the prison and now Scranton's city clerk, also had work done on his vehicle, according to inmates.

He should be fired. He's been compromised by the prison industry. Has the warden been holding this over his head so that they should be investigated by the city?

Mr. Needham used inmate laborers to work on his South Scranton bar and the apartment above it.

Interesting thought: what if the prisoners did some faulty wiring or the like and someone was hurt at the bar? His insurance company will ask him who did the work, what's he going to say? What if the prisoners put in some secret video taping equipment in the apartment (doesn't seem very likely), what are the renters going to think?

[lowbridge]

bump

[HiTech RedNeck]

What a dandy way to sneak in drugs by the pound.