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| Subject: Georgia may use prisoners to fill farm labor gap Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:28 am | |
| State officials have set their sights on another potential pool of workers to help bridge Georgia’s severe farm labor gap: prisoners.
They came to the farm from Mexico through the federal guest worker program. But Georgia farmers say there is a labor shortage and the state may turn to prison and jail inmates.
Beverly Hall: Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests. The idea is to put nonviolent inmates -- who are spending the end of their prison terms at one of the state’s 13 transitional centers -- to work picking fruits and vegetables across Georgia.
This is at least the state’s second attempt to tackle the labor shortages since enacting a tough new immigration law many farmers blame for their problems. State officials started experimenting last summer by encouraging criminal probationers to work on the farms, but results are mixed.
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/georgia-may-use-prisoners-1195152.html?cxtype=rss_news _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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