Georgia May Use Prisoners to Fill Farm Labor Gap
October 7th, 2011Via: AP:
State officials have set their sights on another potential pool of workers to help bridge Georgia’s severe farm labor gap: prisoners.
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.
Research Credit: dh
this is probably way off the beaten path, but i suddenly wonder if this situation might be revealing an ulterior motive for the anti-immigration movement? keep the masses hating the job-stealing foreigners and slowly introduce prison (slave) labor as an alternative for the jobs the stuck-up americans don’t want to do… those “criminals” ought to be contributing to society anyway, right?
as more of us become (thought) criminals and domestic terrorists, the free labor pool continues to grow.