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Originally Posted by zcaveman
Switching garbage companies does not mean they would switch landfill sites and the prisoners would still be available at those sites. In Florida, they do not let the convicted prisoners lounge and watch Television. Some of them work in gardens supplying food for the other prisoners. Take a ride up 35 in Marion county to 468 and look at the large farm on the left. If you go up 301 and pass the Sheriff's station, there used to be a sign that it was built by the prisoners. if you drive almost any highway, you will see the prisoners with the green horizontal stripes doing road work. In Florida, if you get a certain number of DUIs and get sent to the "P" farm, it means that you are going to pick "P"eas and other vegetables for 30-90 days.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that the prisoners sort the recyclables?
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They probably would be prisoners who have had enough good behavior to go out and do something like this under tight supervision or inmates on much lesser charges than would warrant a stint in a regular Florida prison.
There was a group of State Prisoners at the entrance to the Doggie Doo Run Run today-- March 19, 2008-- who were picked up trash or doing something along CR101 and CR104. They are probably prisoners who are set to get out soon or those from various non-violent crimes.
I worked as a student attorney for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners for 18 months or so mainly at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater. In Minnesota, at least, they kept very tight reins on work-release prisoners and the like. My prisoner clients as a student attorney were mainly in for violent crimes except for murder and manslaughter. These were kept at prisons in MN were even more security than at Stillwater.
As an aside, the old Stillwater prison is the MN prison where the Younger brothers from the James gang were after the debacle of the James' gang's September 7, 1876 raid on Northfield, MN. I worked at the newer Stillwater prison.