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Isn't the Free Labor of Prisoners Wonderful? Towns Are Sad to See Their Prisons Leaving the Scene of the Grime Hard Times Cut Into Free Labor by Convicts Who Mop Town Hall, Rip Out Beaver Dams

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Towns Are Sad to See Their Prisons Leaving the Scene of the Grime Hard Times Cut Into Free Labor by Convicts Who Mop Town Hall, Rip Out Beaver Dams By JENNIFER LEVITZ Wall Street Journal January 26, 20009 CHARLESTON, Maine -- One morning recently at the town hall here, Selectwoman Terri-Lynn Hall set out some fresh coffee, crackers and dip for the cleaning crew. "I also make 'em turkeys, bake 'em hams, and serve spaghetti," she said -- "with homemade sauce." One of the crew, Rex Call, put down his mop and helped himself to a piping hot mug of joe. "I'd rather be working here than sitting in the cell all day," said Mr. Call, who -- when he's not out on work-release -- is serving two years in state prison for car theft. Although many people fight fiercely to block prisons from coming to town, Charleston and other communities are feeling an opposite impulse these days...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).