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Whups...Jan 6th hearings are imploding LOL

Another lie proven. What is that something like 4 or 5 now. I am starting to think this Cassidy Smollett was actually a plant by the Repubs. They told her, be reluctant at first but hint you know something, then slowly act like they are breaking you, then go full steam ahead and tell them all the lies they want to hear.

"Proven" how? Because Rudy says its a lie...LOL

You guys are too funny
 
"Proven" how? Because Rudy says its a lie...LOL

You guys are too funny
What's not to believe? You believed lying morons like Adam Schiff.

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So your idea is that non-violent white collar criminals should be offered rehabilitation...while others should not

Racist much?

Even in instagator's racist prison system donald trump would end up serving his entire sentence breaking rocks... since he's proven to not be rehab capable LOL
How is that racist? Are you suggesting only people of color are violent?

Now that's racist.
 

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

A century later, unpaid prison labor continues to power Florida​


In the spring of 1923, nearly a hundred witnesses testified to the horrific conditions at the state’s convict labor camps before a joint committee of the Florida Legislature.

Some 57 years after slavery had been abolished, a loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed the state to profit off forcing prisoners, most of them black, to work. The men lived in filth and had little to eat. They were arrested on frivolous or petty charges and made to pay off their debts working long hours in the sun. Those who didn’t faced whippings, beatings and torture. Guards could be brutal and needlessly vindictive.


The hearings spanned several days, generating headlines in newspapers across the country. Under the pressure, state lawmakers abolished convict leasing — or the sale of prisoners to private companies. Soon after that, they outlawed the strap as a form of punishment.

Yet, forced labor not only persisted, it remained integral to the Florida prison system. Whippings were replaced with solitary confinement. Convict leasing morphed into prison farms and chain gangs, and the state took custody of the inmates.

Eventually, chain gangs faded from memory, despite a brief revival in the mid-1990s. But to this day, state prisoners are forced to do much of the same work. In fact, they’ve only taken on more responsibilities. And while the whippings and beatings have largely ceased, reports of inhumane conditions at the convict labor camps linger.

In a given year, some 3,500 unpaid prisoners make up Florida’s shadow economy. State road crews and “community work squads” incarcerated by the Department of Corrections subsidize local governments from the Panhandle to Miami-Dade: powering waste and public works departments, grooming cemeteries and school grounds, maintaining and constructing buildings, treating sewage and collecting trash.

Earlier this year, nearly a century after the convict labor hearings of 1923, a different group of people testified, this time before the Alachua County Commission.

They described prisoners forced to work long hours in the Florida summer heat, running weed-eaters and busting up sidewalks. Rest breaks and food were hard to come by. Rules were bent or outright abused. Corrections officers could be cruel. Health and safety concerns were ignored.

Like the chain gangs of a century ago, the men on community work squads remain unpaid. Their only alternative to working: confinement. Work squads are made up of inmates nearing release, but they receive no vocational certificates, and have nothing to show for their work when they get out.

Cote Cunningham was based out of Lancaster Work Camp in Trenton. He said he was forced to mow, paint, weed and pick up trash on an outside grounds crew. Cunningham said prisoners in the camp endured coercion and poor conditions until they were “ground down to nothing,” then released with no work skills applicable in the outside world.

“You’re thrown back into society and you’re supposed to make it and be successful,” Cunningham told the Times-Union, “But you don’t get nothing from being in there at all.”

In a given year, some 3,500 unpaid prisoners make up Florida’s shadow economy. State road crews and “community work squads” incarcerated by the Department of Corrections subsidize local governments from the Panhandle to Miami-Dade.​


In Alachua, the commission voted in December to end the county’s labor agreement with the Florida Department of Corrections after two hearings. It was a trailblazing decision that echoed history: Alachua was one of the first counties to end its convict leasing system after the 1923 hearings.


The conditions in Florida prisons — violent and understaffed — drew the commissioners’ skepticism. So did the secrecy of the Department of Corrections, which refused to allow Gainesville Public Defender Stacy Scott to interview inmates about their work conditions at the city’s state work camp.

“The biggest hit on this program is that we are in some way complicit in an unjust system,” Commissioner Hutch Hutchinson said at the hearing.

Florida is one of only a handful of states that use unpaid inmate labor. All of them are Southern and have disproportionately black prison populations.

It is nearly impossible to calculate the value of prison labor across Florida. Hundreds of state and municipal agencies — as well as dozens of state colleges and nonprofits — tap into the forced labor pool.

Some 2,500 prisoners are assigned to community work squads, and another 1,000 to Florida Department of Transportation road squads. Prisoners worked about 17.7 million hours in the last five fiscal years on the community work squads alone. The

Department of Corrections estimates the value of this labor at around $147.5 million over the time period, but the real value is likely double or triple that estimate factoring in actual wages and benefits. The FDOT said it has used about $67 million of inmate labor since July 2015.

The Times-Union reviewed department policies, analyzed reams of public records and interviewed 11 former inmates to gain a better understanding of the state’s hidden workforce. What emerged was a troubling portrait reminiscent of a century-old practice.

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.

• Eleven prisoners from work camps — nine of them who had been on squads that went outside the gate — said they did not get enough food to sustain them through a full shift of hard labor. They complained of excessive heat in the summer and all but one said they were often made to spread the filth of their uniforms onto their beds before showering, posing health risks.

Community and Department of Transportation work squads are unpaid, and whatever money prisoners have on their own is subject to fines and fees associated with the private vendors running their bank accounts. Work squads assignments don’t lead to vocational degrees or certificates to help prepare former prisoners to re-enter society.

• Prison laborers don’t have the same protections as free workers, and labor practices on some assignments have raised safety and environmental health concerns with inmates. Community and Department of Transportation work squads make up 3.5 percent of the prison population, but account for 20 percent of reported injuries on average since 2016. Those injuries are likely underreported due to prisoners’ fears of retaliation.

• The conditions at the camps allow for what the Department of Corrections terms “costs savings” or “value added” agreements with local governments, offsetting the cost of running cities and counties across the state by providing scores of unpaid men for municipal departments.

• Racial disparities seen throughout the state prison system are mirrored on work squads. Forty-five percent of men in Florida prisons — and 43 percent on work squads — are black, according to the most recent DOC data. Black men make up less than 10 percent of the state population.

The Department of Corrections defended its program.
Secretary Mark Inch told the Times-Union that “work programs are a valuable piece of Florida’s correctional system and are an integral part of an inmate’s rehabilitation and restitution.”

“In accordance with Florida law, the Florida Department of Corrections work programs allow inmates opportunities to provide restitution to communities throughout Florida,” Inch, who did not agree to an interview, said in a statement. “Similar to community service or volunteer work, inmates who are assigned to work squads provide a valuable service to Florida’s communities, reduce expenditures to taxpayers, and receive job skills and experience that will benefit their lives after they are released.”

Former squad members interviewed by the Times-Union didn’t agree. Neither did Alachua County officials.

Alachua County Commissioner Ken Cornell highlighted the state’s recidivism rate, or the frequency at which prisoners cycle back into the system — 33 percent at three years, but doubling to about 65 percent at five, according to the James Madison Institute.

“When they fix the problem, let them come back and sell us on the benefit of using free labor,” he said at a January hearing. “It should include lower recidivism and better job training. I’m not going to hold my breath.”

Other county and municipal departments are reliant on prison labor and incorporate the savings into their budgets. The majority of them are rural and strapped for tax revenue.

“There’s no way we can take care of our facilities, our roads, our ditches, if we didn't have inmate labor,” said Warren Yeager, a former Gulf County commissioner. “We could not tax our citizens enough to replace the value that the inmate labor contributes to our community.”

The city of Jacksonville has no agreement with the Department of Corrections, but Duval County sends more people to prison than any other county in the state, so residents are often assigned to work squads. The most recent Duval County entity to use prison labor was the city of Baldwin in 2017.
This is the biggest crock of shit I've ever read.

Here's an idea, don't want to work for free, stay your dumbass out of prison.

These people deserve rehabilitation and job training? My mocha brown ass they do.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
 
How is that racist? Are you suggesting only people of color are violent?

Now that's racist.


No I'm telling you that white collar non violent crime is prevalently committed by white people...guess who are the ONLY people even eligible for rehab in that proposed racist fantasy...
 
This is the biggest crock of shit I've ever read.

Here's an idea, don't want to work for free, stay your dumbass out of prison.

These people deserve rehabilitation and job training? My mocha brown ass they do.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

At least your consistent...no rehab for anyone

instigator wants rehab for white people crime only LOL
 
No I'm telling you that white collar non violent crime is prevalently committed by white people...guess who are the ONLY people even eligible for rehab in that proposed racist fantasy...
What does that GhostofBrainless post say, under the surface?

He claims that:
White people are mostly 'pick your pocket' criminals.
Black people are mostly ' bust a cap or slit your throat' criminals.
Sounds totally racist to me.
I'd divide them on violent/non-violent terms, having nothing to do with race.

Freedom of choice allows any race to follow the laws of the land with no punishments needed. Also free to leave for another country.

Or any race can chose to be criminals with the punishments for different crimes being known before-hand.
Attempting to make any of that racist is complete and utter BS...
🤓
 
List of Top Criminals of the 20th Century:
For a follow up on my previous post...

1. Pablo Escobar - White/Colombian

2. Ted Bundy - White

3. Richard Ramirez - Hispanic

4. Al Capone - White/Italian

5. Zodiac Killer - White, but never captured/proven.

6. Jeffrey Dahmer - White

7. John Wayne Gacy - White

8. Ed Gein - White

9. Charles Manson - White

10. Aileen Wuornos - White Female

11. Josef Mengele - White/German

12. Bonnie Parker - White Female

13. Dennis Rader (BTK Killer) - White

14. Edmund Kemper - White

15. John Dillinger - White

16. Harold Shipman - White/British

17. Gary Ridgway - White

18. Lucky Luciano - White/Italian

19. Frank Abagnale - White

20. Peter Sutcliffe - White/British

21. Christopher Scarver - Black

22. Saddam Hussein - White/Arab

23. Joaquin Guzman Loera - White/Mexican

24. Richard Wershe Jr - White

25. Griselda Blanco - White/Colombian Female

Only one of the Top 25 was a Black man.
I quit even looking when I reached the Top 100 (the list continues), of which only 4/100 were Black.

 

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

A century later, unpaid prison labor continues to power Florida​


In the spring of 1923, nearly a hundred witnesses testified to the horrific conditions at the state’s convict labor camps before a joint committee of the Florida Legislature.

Some 57 years after slavery had been abolished, a loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed the state to profit off forcing prisoners, most of them black, to work. The men lived in filth and had little to eat. They were arrested on frivolous or petty charges and made to pay off their debts working long hours in the sun. Those who didn’t faced whippings, beatings and torture. Guards could be brutal and needlessly vindictive.


The hearings spanned several days, generating headlines in newspapers across the country. Under the pressure, state lawmakers abolished convict leasing — or the sale of prisoners to private companies. Soon after that, they outlawed the strap as a form of punishment.

Yet, forced labor not only persisted, it remained integral to the Florida prison system. Whippings were replaced with solitary confinement. Convict leasing morphed into prison farms and chain gangs, and the state took custody of the inmates.

Eventually, chain gangs faded from memory, despite a brief revival in the mid-1990s. But to this day, state prisoners are forced to do much of the same work. In fact, they’ve only taken on more responsibilities. And while the whippings and beatings have largely ceased, reports of inhumane conditions at the convict labor camps linger.

In a given year, some 3,500 unpaid prisoners make up Florida’s shadow economy. State road crews and “community work squads” incarcerated by the Department of Corrections subsidize local governments from the Panhandle to Miami-Dade: powering waste and public works departments, grooming cemeteries and school grounds, maintaining and constructing buildings, treating sewage and collecting trash.

Earlier this year, nearly a century after the convict labor hearings of 1923, a different group of people testified, this time before the Alachua County Commission.

They described prisoners forced to work long hours in the Florida summer heat, running weed-eaters and busting up sidewalks. Rest breaks and food were hard to come by. Rules were bent or outright abused. Corrections officers could be cruel. Health and safety concerns were ignored.

Like the chain gangs of a century ago, the men on community work squads remain unpaid. Their only alternative to working: confinement. Work squads are made up of inmates nearing release, but they receive no vocational certificates, and have nothing to show for their work when they get out.

Cote Cunningham was based out of Lancaster Work Camp in Trenton. He said he was forced to mow, paint, weed and pick up trash on an outside grounds crew. Cunningham said prisoners in the camp endured coercion and poor conditions until they were “ground down to nothing,” then released with no work skills applicable in the outside world.

“You’re thrown back into society and you’re supposed to make it and be successful,” Cunningham told the Times-Union, “But you don’t get nothing from being in there at all.”

In a given year, some 3,500 unpaid prisoners make up Florida’s shadow economy. State road crews and “community work squads” incarcerated by the Department of Corrections subsidize local governments from the Panhandle to Miami-Dade.​


In Alachua, the commission voted in December to end the county’s labor agreement with the Florida Department of Corrections after two hearings. It was a trailblazing decision that echoed history: Alachua was one of the first counties to end its convict leasing system after the 1923 hearings.


The conditions in Florida prisons — violent and understaffed — drew the commissioners’ skepticism. So did the secrecy of the Department of Corrections, which refused to allow Gainesville Public Defender Stacy Scott to interview inmates about their work conditions at the city’s state work camp.

“The biggest hit on this program is that we are in some way complicit in an unjust system,” Commissioner Hutch Hutchinson said at the hearing.

Florida is one of only a handful of states that use unpaid inmate labor. All of them are Southern and have disproportionately black prison populations.

It is nearly impossible to calculate the value of prison labor across Florida. Hundreds of state and municipal agencies — as well as dozens of state colleges and nonprofits — tap into the forced labor pool.

Some 2,500 prisoners are assigned to community work squads, and another 1,000 to Florida Department of Transportation road squads. Prisoners worked about 17.7 million hours in the last five fiscal years on the community work squads alone. The

Department of Corrections estimates the value of this labor at around $147.5 million over the time period, but the real value is likely double or triple that estimate factoring in actual wages and benefits. The FDOT said it has used about $67 million of inmate labor since July 2015.

The Times-Union reviewed department policies, analyzed reams of public records and interviewed 11 former inmates to gain a better understanding of the state’s hidden workforce. What emerged was a troubling portrait reminiscent of a century-old practice.

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.

• Eleven prisoners from work camps — nine of them who had been on squads that went outside the gate — said they did not get enough food to sustain them through a full shift of hard labor. They complained of excessive heat in the summer and all but one said they were often made to spread the filth of their uniforms onto their beds before showering, posing health risks.

Community and Department of Transportation work squads are unpaid, and whatever money prisoners have on their own is subject to fines and fees associated with the private vendors running their bank accounts. Work squads assignments don’t lead to vocational degrees or certificates to help prepare former prisoners to re-enter society.

• Prison laborers don’t have the same protections as free workers, and labor practices on some assignments have raised safety and environmental health concerns with inmates. Community and Department of Transportation work squads make up 3.5 percent of the prison population, but account for 20 percent of reported injuries on average since 2016. Those injuries are likely underreported due to prisoners’ fears of retaliation.

• The conditions at the camps allow for what the Department of Corrections terms “costs savings” or “value added” agreements with local governments, offsetting the cost of running cities and counties across the state by providing scores of unpaid men for municipal departments.

• Racial disparities seen throughout the state prison system are mirrored on work squads. Forty-five percent of men in Florida prisons — and 43 percent on work squads — are black, according to the most recent DOC data. Black men make up less than 10 percent of the state population.

The Department of Corrections defended its program.
Secretary Mark Inch told the Times-Union that “work programs are a valuable piece of Florida’s correctional system and are an integral part of an inmate’s rehabilitation and restitution.”

“In accordance with Florida law, the Florida Department of Corrections work programs allow inmates opportunities to provide restitution to communities throughout Florida,” Inch, who did not agree to an interview, said in a statement. “Similar to community service or volunteer work, inmates who are assigned to work squads provide a valuable service to Florida’s communities, reduce expenditures to taxpayers, and receive job skills and experience that will benefit their lives after they are released.”

Former squad members interviewed by the Times-Union didn’t agree. Neither did Alachua County officials.

Alachua County Commissioner Ken Cornell highlighted the state’s recidivism rate, or the frequency at which prisoners cycle back into the system — 33 percent at three years, but doubling to about 65 percent at five, according to the James Madison Institute.

“When they fix the problem, let them come back and sell us on the benefit of using free labor,” he said at a January hearing. “It should include lower recidivism and better job training. I’m not going to hold my breath.”

Other county and municipal departments are reliant on prison labor and incorporate the savings into their budgets. The majority of them are rural and strapped for tax revenue.

“There’s no way we can take care of our facilities, our roads, our ditches, if we didn't have inmate labor,” said Warren Yeager, a former Gulf County commissioner. “We could not tax our citizens enough to replace the value that the inmate labor contributes to our community.”

The city of Jacksonville has no agreement with the Department of Corrections, but Duval County sends more people to prison than any other county in the state, so residents are often assigned to work squads. The most recent Duval County entity to use prison labor was the city of Baldwin in 2017.

You live in a fantasy, bizzaro world.

People are forced to work in prison?

I hear that's starting to happen to people who aren't in prison too. What's next???
 
What does that GhostofBrainless post say, under the surface?

He claims that:
White people are mostly 'pick your pocket' criminals.
Black people are mostly ' bust a cap or slit your throat' criminals.
Sounds totally racist to me.
I'd divide them on violent/non-violent terms, having nothing to do with race.

I said non violent white collar crime is predominantly crime committed by white people...that's a fact

And the proposed system only allowed rehab for those people

Outside of being unconstitutional...its racist

Freedom of choice allows any race to follow the laws of the land with no punishments needed. Also free to leave for another country.

Yes freedom of choice shows whites commit more white collar non violent crime...and that's the only type of criminal that would be available to rehabilitation


Or any race can chose to be criminals with the punishments for different crimes being known before-hand.
Yes but that doesn't make any punishment "OK" just because you announce it beforehand you jackass

Attempting to make any of that racist is complete and utter BS... 🤓

instagator wants crimes that white criminals commit to have opportunities for rehabilitation but crimes that black criminals commit to be as harsh as possible with no rehabilitation

So someone like Bernie Madoff should receive rehabilitation regardless of the fact he stole more money and had more victims than any kid who knocked over a gas station
 
You live in a fantasy, bizzaro world.

People are forced to work in prison?

Yes, Florida at many times has been described as bizzaro world

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.
 
Yes, Florida at many times has been described as bizzaro world

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.
Can confirm.
 
You live in a fantasy, bizzaro world.

People are forced to work in prison?

I hear that's starting to happen to people who aren't in prison too. What's next???
Yes he does. Crazy TDSer gonna crazy TDS. 18 months removed from office and DJT still living rent free in his head. As for prison and work….

Oh the horror, people who commit crimes are forced to work. Sort of like, everyone in America that wants to eat.
 
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Yes he does. Crazy TDSer gonna crazy TDS. 18 months removed from office and DJT still living rent free in his head.

Says the guy who's still calling him our president 18 months after he lost

He doesn't rent space in your head...
He's the landlord and you pay him

LOL

Oh the horror, people who commit crimes are forced to work. Sort of like, everyone in America that wants to eat.

jfegally thinks everyone in America is forced to work... LMAO
 
Says the guy who's still calling him our president 18 months after he lost

He doesn't rent space in your head...
He's the landlord and you pay him

LOL



jfegally thinks everyone in America is forced to work... LMAO
Yes…Mr obtuse is back. Little dickey. Good grief.
 


@RayGravesGhost @Uniformed_ReRe have these been discussed during the Jan 6th hearings?

Or yall still lapping up Hutchinson's lies?

Breaking news from something that was reported on October 29, 2021?

I guess when something bangs around the echo chamber long enough some trumpanzee think they're hearing the lies for the first time

But I wonder...

1. Don't trumpanzees swear up & down no violence occured?
2. People arrested for violence are being prosecuted...Has anyone seen a BLM activist? Lots of trumpanzees indicted & convicted

Where are these non-existent BLMers who were ordered to commit violence and arson?


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/29/police-officials-exchanged-warnings-antifa-black-l/

Police officials exchanged warnings of Antifa, Black Lives Matter ‘blending in’ with Jan. 6 crowds​

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times - Friday, October 29, 2021

Newly revealed documents show that law enforcement officials were concerned that far-left activists would “attempt to blend in” with Trump supporters at Jan. 6 protests and “cause trouble especially around cameras.”

In a Jan. 5 email, a U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division official alerted several federal and police agencies to a Twitter post about Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters from Baltimore and Washington “already busing people in to disturb January 6th.”

The email went to the U.S. Park Police, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation and Washington Metro Police Department. It was among 300 pages of U.S. Park Police records related to the Jan. 6 riot that were obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

“Orders given to dress like ‘MAGA’ blend in cause trouble especially around cameras,” read the Twitter post that was shared by the USCP intelligence official. “At night arson has been ordered. All to be blamed on Trump supporters attending.”

In the email, the official told law enforcement colleagues that the post had received “multiple replies” saying that BLM and Antifa activists “will wear MAGA hats backwards, wear camouflage and attempt blend into the MAGA crowd.”


 
Yes, Florida at many times has been described as bizzaro world

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.

Read this slowly.

I am glad that they are forced to work.

Read it again, repeatedly, until it sinks in.

People who aren't in prison are forced to work...if they want food, water, housing, transportation and electricity.

Now, having said that, I'm in law enforcement. The VAST majority of those who are in prison, and even a greater number of those who are in jail, WANT TO WORK.

They beg for the opportunity. You want to deprive them of that because you know better than they do what's best for them.

^^^this last sentence is the litmus test for far left liberalism. You passed your test as well.
 
Read this slowly.

I am glad that they are forced to work.

Read it again, repeatedly, until it sinks in.

People who aren't in prison are forced to work...if they want food, water, housing, transportation and electricity.

Now, having said that, I'm in law enforcement. The VAST majority of those who are in prison, and even a greater number of those who are in jail, WANT TO WORK.

They beg for the opportunity. You want to deprive them of that because you know better than they do what's best for them.

^^^this last sentence is the litmus test for far left liberalism. You passed your test as well.
Dems are all about wanting to control others. Especially the 'victims' they want to 'protect' them from invented 'suppressors'.

The real suppressors are the dems. Every. Single. Time.
 
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Yes, Florida at many times has been described as bizzaro world

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/workforced/

Prisoners are forced to work. In at least some instances, that includes those who have medical issues. Those who don’t go out with their squads receive a disciplinary report, which can lead to up to 60 days in confinement and the loss of time earned off their sentences. Florida corrections officers write an average of 1,750 disciplinary reports per year for “refusing to work.” It’s not readily apparent how many of those were for people on the work squads.

By the way...

I picked up an inmate at one of our state prisons yesterday. He EOS's on Monday, July 4th (EOS means end of sentence). He has been indicted on one of my cases so he's getting out of prison but he's going to jail to face new charges for crimes that he (allegedly) committed while waiting be sentenced for his previous crimes.

Anyway, it was almost a 4 hour drive. One of the first things he asked me while sitting in the back of my vehicle...."Can you help me get a trustee position?"

He was asking me to help him get a job so that he can work while he waits on his case to work its way through the courts. This "poor man" was begging me to help him become "a slave" by your definition.

The problem is that you don't fully understand your own ignorance.
 
Another note from my drive with the inmate...

He went to prison almost 3 years ago. His daughter had just graduated high school and he was begging her to go to college. She agreed to go to college if he 1) would stop using drugs (rampant in Alabama prisons and all prisons really) 2) he would earn his HS diploma in prison 3) he would learn a trade in prison and you do that by working in prison camps.

He's a certified welder now, has his GED and, according to him at least, he's been clean for almost 3 years. Also his daughter is two semesters away from graduating and she wants to become a Social Worker that specializes in helping children born to parents with addiction issues.

Her tuition was paid by a victims rights group.

This is how you fight recidivism.
 
Dems are all about wanting to control others. Especially the 'victims' they want to 'protect' them from invented 'suppressors'.

The real suppressors are the dems. Every. Single. Time.

Dems may be about "wanting to control others."

But considering how eagerly you rush to defend a president who wanted to declare martial law so he could overturn an election, I'd say you are no better.
 
Dems may be about "wanting to control others."

But considering how eagerly you rush to defend a president who wanted to declare martial law so he could overturn an election, I'd say you are no better.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Trump Derrangement Syndrome looks like. Textbook example.

@Uniformed_ReRe judges our President Trump not on his actions, but on what someone else SAID he WANTED to do.

Probably someone as reliable as Casey Hutchinson. These people are insane.
 
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@RayGravesGhost @Uniformed_ReRe what's this I am hearing about a rumor Casey Hutchinson's dad likes to send Christmas cards to Trump?

Don't tell me you dorks got hoodwinked AGAIN???

No...just another sign you don't know shit about what you're talking about

She's young conservative republican dumb dumb

What would be shocking that her family is conservative republicans


This clearly shows you can't think past the trumpanee litmus test

You've been so busy discrediting her because she won't lie for trump that you are amazed that she's a conservative republican?

For you clowns ...you can't be republican unless you're a fascist boot licker for trump first
 
"What is at stake?
Who has control?
SURPRISE WITNESS.
Who was surprised?
Who will be surprised?
Use your logic.
Can emotions be used to influence decisions?
How do you control emotion?
Define 'Plant'.
How do you insert a plant?
Can emotions be used to insert a plant?
Who is Cassidy Hutchinson?
Trust the plan.
Q"

Trump literally has the dems working for him to destroy their own sham hearings LMAO!

And @RayGravesGhost and @Uniformed_ReRe are his useful idiots in his plan. Thanks guys! LOL
 
No...just another sign you don't know shit about what you're talking about

She's young conservative republican dumb dumb

What would be shocking that her family is conservative republicans


This clearly shows you can't think past the trumpanee litmus test

You've been so busy discrediting her because she won't lie for trump that you are amazed that she's a conservative republican?

For you clowns ...you can't be republican unless you're a fascist boot licker for trump first
What she is, is a turncoat. She endorsed Biden after getting canned. There's nothing conservative about that.
 
The article is from the Times Union and it states the Florida inmates are forced to work

You questined the idea that inmates were forced to work

What's the mystery?

No, I questioned the premise.

The only mystery is how you manage to struggle with our common language.
 
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