[dead]

Boy, how disappointing is that picture?

I was really hoping for a Linda Blair and Pam Grier kinda scene.

[CFW]

Looks like a few of them could use the exercise.

[Semper Paratus]

Hey I've seen a number of "Women in Prison" movies and they don't look like that!

[Rebelbase]

"no salt, pepper or ketchup"

Now *that* borders on cruel!

[Probus]

I too, thought jail was supposed to be sexy, the ACLU said so.

I love this as well, "Father Bill Wack, a young Catholic priest, was waiting for them. He does not particularly appreciate having the chain gang help with the burials. "It's free labour and it's undignified. How is this helping to rehabilitate anyone?" he said."

It ain't about rehabilitation, it is about punishment and not wanting to go back to jail for your three squares, tv, and sleeping in all day.

[Dead Corpse]

Love the Title. No leftist spin at the Herald now is there?

Misery? Criminals deserve a little less comfort than the rest of us.

Also, I agree.... these women could really use the execise.

[chachacha]

Father Bill Wack, a young Catholic priest, was waiting for them. He does not particularly appreciate having the chain gang help with the burials. "It's free labour and it's undignified. How is this helping to rehabilitate anyone?" he said.

Hey Father! Maybe they'll hate it so much they'll pick the LORDS way over the Sheriffs.

[TheBigB]

[GovernmentShrinker]

Critics say there was no evidence that chain gangs had any deterrent effect.

. . . but can provide no statistics, such as comparative recidivism rates, to back up their claim.

[thinktwice]

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an American legend.

"The inconvenience of these cells, which as we see, are not dungeons, is that they allow beings to reflect, who should be made to work." -- Victor Hugo, about "punishment" cells, Les Miserables, pp pg 966

[hardhead]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Lots a poke in that picture. Love the Moe, Larry, and Curley jailbird stripes, too. Man, there must be some good eats in prison.

[cars for sale]

Sheriff Joe is flat out awesome
a true leader who pizzes the libs off hourly

[Sabatier]

I've seen these gals out working picking up litter and they aren't chained together and for safety they wear bright orange just like the county workers who do roadside maintenance. It's usually substantially cooler outside the city and the air is cleaner. I guess the story's spin is more dramatic than the facts.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Sounds like the makings of a good movie to me.

"What we have here is a failure to communicate," says the warden played by Pamela Anderson before disciplining an inmate.

[ampat]

Well Done, Sheriff Arpaio. Now we can get the criminals to "pay" their debt to society with soom free labor. It should happen all over the country. Should be done with the big dig in MA.

[TADSLOS]

The women all volunteered for chain gang duty to get out of lock-down, where four prisoners are shut in a cell 2.4 metres by 3.6 metres 23 hours a day. If they spend 30 days on the chain gang, picking up rubbish, weeding or burying bodies, they can get out of the punishment cells.

Joe Arpaio gets it.

[ladyjane]

If they want to write to their families, they have to use special postcards with the sheriff's picture on them.

Now that's an idea.

[HamiltonJay]

Lets see I commit a minor violation and get a few months hard labor or solitary, and I am not coddled and treated harshly... Hmmm...

You think that might keep me from committing a more significant violation, so I don't have to go back? Hmmmmm.... I know it would for me.

[SamAdams76]

Critics say there was no evidence that chain gangs had any deterrent effect.

Whether it does or not is not the point. The purpose of our prison system is to PUNISH those who break the law. Rehabilitation is a personal choice. Those who wish to turn their lives around rehabilitate and assimilate back into civilized society. Those who don't end up back in the slammer. Simple as that. Speaking for myself, if I was ever stuck in a chain gang like this, I'd make damn sure I never got in that situation again.

[Xenalyte]

"It feels weird being seen in public, chained up together, wearing stripes. People honk their horns or shout at you," said Tylisha Chewning, who was jailed for violating probation after renting a car and failing to return it for two months.

I don't know what's funnier - the name "Tylisha Chewning" or the fact that she drove a rent-a-car for two months.