[Will88]

The prisons are full of people who can pick berries. People that have nothing else to do and could defray some of the cost of their imprisonment.

At least one Georgia lawmaker was proposing that a couple of weeks ago. Haven't heard if it was taken seriously by others.

[count-your-change]

I’m sure the prisons of Georgia could grow most of the food they eat or hire the inmates out so they could make restitution for the cost of their crimes or care for their families.

Think of what could be done in a place like Detroit that can’t afford to tear down its condemned houses. There’s lots of valuable material in those houses if the labor was cheap, like inmates, that is being left to rot like the berries going to rot for lack of workers.

But....I don’t see it happening any time soon.