Excellent idea. Although I wonder if inmates in excellent physical shape is such a good thing. I wonder if we could hoook it up to the city power lines and make them power the city through pedaling all day and night.
The sheriff has endorsed Jesse Kelly (R) in the AZ 8 race to unseat Giffords.
It's not. That's why here in Ohio, we got rid of weights in prisons after a deadly prison riot in 1993.
One of the mechanisms of law preventing the State from using prisoners as a resource, is precisely to prevent the State from establishing slavery. Of course, taxes more or less do the same thing, now.