Surprised the sheriff wasn't run out on a rail for making inmates work a chain gang.
Next time, arrest the vagrants and make them clean up their mess.
Posted on 07/31/2021 3:02:12 PM PDT by bgill
Inmates took part in a major cleanup in Brevard County.
The sheriff's office's "chain gang' pitched in to clean up a homeless camp and dumping ground under the Sykes Creek Parkway Bridge.
They removed 22,600 pounds of garbage under the bridge. All that filled 16 trucks. The trucks hauled the trash to the landfill.
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Surprised the sheriff wasn't run out on a rail for making inmates work a chain gang.
Next time, arrest the vagrants and make them clean up their mess.
My county has a Sheriff's Department inmate work crew that mows lawns for churches and others that ask.
The inmates volunteer, it gets them out of the county lockup for the day.
One cannot force the inmates to work, to do such would be indentured servitude.
I’m old enough to remember actual chain gangs, working on the side of the road swinging sling blades. The prison camp a few miles from us had a hot box for unruly prisoners (just like in Cool Hand Luke). The irony is that the prison camp, in NW Fla, was located under beautiful oak trees next to a bay, it’s prime land now and my sister has a nice home only a few hundred yards from where the camp was located.
Community service as part of a plea is not indentured servitude?
Years ago, they got paid here with taxpayer money. Unfortunately, the officers would buy cigarettes out of their own money to get them to behave while out in public even though that is against the rules. Half would wander off to the truck and sleep. Then they’d ogle and talk nasty filth to the church ladies who would bring them lunch. The officers never had the cajones to put a stop to it. Turn over was high as new officers would soon quit because the inmates were running things and fearing what would happen if one raped a church lady.
It looks like the demonrats held an eart day celebration there
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.”
I’m glad to hear that Democrats are finding jobs. They will have to pay rent going forward don’t you know.
” Half would wander off to the truck and sleep.”
I saw a DOT crew cab with six guys in it parked off a quiet road under a shade tree doing the same thing one summer day.
That looks like a debris pile of about 6 homeless people.
Yeah but can they eat 50 eggs in an hour?
What’s your dirt doing in boss-man’s hole?
Homeless people left this?
inmates volunteer, it gets them out of the county lockup for the day.
We were doing a job at a county jail one time and had a couple of inmates helping us. I apologized to one of them for keeping him from other things and he said he didn't mind, he had nothing but time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBn5aIfZElE
Great classic song by the immortal Sam Cooke. Chain Gang.
Soundtrack for this thread.
Community Service normally does not begin until one is out of lockup.
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.
Year ago in the town I grew up in, people receiving town assistance would work for the town highway department. They’d arrive at 8 am, and work 8 hrs a day, at minimum wage, until they had worked off their town payment, which was usually 4 days a week. It was a great program, and got them used to getting up for work at 8 am, and actually working. It also gave them some self-respect in that they were doing something meaningful for their money.
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