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Have them spend a shift cleaning garbage. Done.

• geofft 7y ago
  I see we're leaning real hard into that "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" thing.
  • failrate 7y ago
    Okay, good point. I was being far too glib.
• uxp100 7y ago
  We could give them money for that (just to take it away again), but they probably won't produce $50 of value without getting someone else to stay home who also has debts to pay. So I guess this is more of a belief in the value of work thing. Which is OK, but I think this would have more value if we could then offer offenders a chance to continue to clean and then earn money, but we don't have jobs to offer them after we made up this cleaning one as a punishment.
• arcticbull 7y ago
  This is the epitome of undercutting good hard-working American jobs. This is why prison labor is so toxic. If it's bad to have illegal aliens sneaking into the country and taking jobs why isn't forcing people into unpaid jobs? The weirdest thing for me is seeing the same people advocate for both.