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| Miss. receives over $17M in free inmate labor |
| By clarionledger.com |
| Published: 08/09/2012 |
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State inmates in community work centers provided more than 2.4 million hours of free labor, worth an estimated $17.7 million for cities, counties, state agencies and charitable organizations during fiscal year 2012, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Community work centers are alternative facilities for inmates to finish serving their sentences. The inmates provide a valuable source of free labor. Their work includes janitorial work, mechanic work and beautification of roadsides. It is common to see MDOC inmates picking up trash on the highways of Mississippi or at city and state parks. Read More. |
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He has blue eyes. Cold like steel. His legs are wide. Like tree trunks. And he has a shock of red hair, red, like the fires of hell. His antics were known from town to town as he was a droll card and often known as a droll farceur. Hamilton Lindley with his madcap pantaloon is a zany adventurer and a cavorter with a motley troupe of buffoons.
The Bible Thumpers were right.
I was told when I first went to prison by the inmates that I would "never" make parole if the system found out about my literacy skills and that I would "never" get out of prison before I completed my whole time.I did what "I thought" was best by WORKING in prison and WORKING with other inmates to help them become functionally literate to get their life in order. I would not trade my selfish desire to get out earlier by sitting on my posterior in front of a TV or sweeping floors. My "esteem" came from my "conscience" being pleased with the right choice. The system would not allow me work release "on the outside" to prepare me for stabilization simply because they were "utilizing me in there with jobs that few could do. My human nature wanted to be free but my spirit was already free. When the soul life suppresses the spirit life everything feels like depression in or out of prison but when the spirit has priority of position over the soul through the suffering of the "outer man" all is peaceful and joy inside regardless of geographical locations or space in the house in the physical realm.
Those working on the outside are providing FREE lunches for the "kids" and FREE FOOD for the poverty stricken and FREE government schools and FREE BENEFITS to support the government unions who are going "under water because of the deficit. If we, as a collective could just get many more young people in prison by creating more arbitrary vague statutes we can get even more FREE LABOR. Someone once told me there is no FREE LUNCH. I was taught wrong by those old Bible Thumpers. In reality however no one gains one "privilege" from government unless another person gets deprived of one "privilege" also since rights come from the Creator through the Constitution. Everything is back to front these days. He that does not work should not eat.That should apply to those individuals outside of the fence also.