{"id":1899,"date":"2011-06-15T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/gov-deal-celebrates-juneteenth-by-recommending-indentured-agricultural-labor.html"},"modified":"2011-06-15T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T17:13:17","slug":"gov-deal-celebrates-juneteenth-by-recommending-indentured-agricultural-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/gov-deal-celebrates-juneteenth-by-recommending-indentured-agricultural-labor.html","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Deal celebrates Juneteenth by recommending indentured agricultural labor"},"content":{"rendered":"Remember 85% of people in the prison system are black,\nand Gov. Nathan Deal recommends during the week of Juneteenth celebrations,\naccording to David Rodock in the VDT today,\nParolees to replace migrants?\nGov. Deal says put probationers in fields<\/a>\n
\n\n<\/a>\nWith the recent exodus of undocumented Hispanic migrant workers leaving\nGeorgia to avoid the consequences of House Bill 87, Gov. Nathan Deal made\na statement on Tuesday suggesting that probationers could potentially fill\nthe approximately 11,000 open jobs in the state\u2019s agricultural economy.\n

\n“Specifically, I asked Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian\nOwens and (Department of Agriculture) Commissioner Gary Black to review\nthe current situation and offer possible options,” said Deal in his\nstatement. “Commissioner Owens has indicated that there are 100,000\nprobationers statewide, 8,000 of which are in the Southwest region of\nthe state and 25 percent of which are unemployed … I believe this\nwould be a great partial solution to our current status as we continue\nto move towards sustainable results with the legal options available.”\n

\nThe potential move would allow probationers who are unable to find work\nto have a source of income, provided they are able to meet employer\nstandards. Income can then be used to pay probation fines, along with\nother state fines that are a requirement of their probation sentence.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis fits right in with Joe Pritchard’s rumored suggestion\n\nto replace animal shelter employees with interns.<\/a>\n

\nHey, if there’s one thing Georgia is good at, it’s\nlocking up more people<\/a>\neven while other states realize they can’t afford to do that anymore.\n

\nSo if probationers don’t want to pick onions, lock ’em up again,\nin the new private prison VLCIA wants to build in Lowndes County!\nThat will benefit private prison executives and investors and not\nus in Lowndes County, but hey, that will serve those immigrants right!\n

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