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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLouisiana Sheriff Wants Good Prisoners To Stay Jailed For Their Free Labor
https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-sheriff-wants-good-prisoners-175836590.htmlA sheriff in Louisiana has been railing against the states new prisoner release program, saying many of those good inmates need to stay behind bars for the free labor they provide.
Last week, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator blasted the states Justice Reinvestment Package, a series of bills passed in June that could reduce Louisianas prison population by 10 percent and save more than $260 million over the next decade by slowly releasing nonviolent offenders. The legislation is set to go into effect on Nov. 1 and would authorize the early release of 1,400 prisoners across 21 parishes in the state.
Just 35 prisoners would be immediately released in Caddo Parish, but that seems to be too many for Prator, who said the state needs them to wash cars.
In addition to the bad ones ... theyre releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in the cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money, he continued. Well, theyre going to let them out ― the ones that we use in work release programs.
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Louisiana Sheriff Wants Good Prisoners To Stay Jailed For Their Free Labor (Original Post)
steve2470
Oct 2017
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DK504
(3,847 posts)1. I hate everybody right now.
brush
(53,764 posts)2. Racist bastard wants free labor instead of freeing those who've served their time.
The word for that is slavery.
How do these fucktards even form their mouths to say stuff like that?
Better yet, how do they stay in office after advocating slavery?
Luciferous
(6,078 posts)3. Wtf is happening to our country?!
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)4. wish this was in the onion
Iggo
(47,547 posts)5. Nutshell. (n/t)
CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)6. Who listens to this and is not outraged?!!!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)7. Slavery by any other name.