[Deaf Smith]

"Chain Gang" would be from a leftist editor to stir things up.

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.

[bgill]

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.

[dsrtsage]

It looks like the demonrats held an eart day celebration there

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Our town had the Community Service people do jobs like that. People who avoided jail time but had to do X hours of work as part of their sentence.

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.