Shooting at Starkville Walmart

**GreenheadDawg** · 01-13-2018, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Bully13

yep. prisons need to be self sufficient. grow your own damned food or starve. and the surplus should go to relieve the snap program.

I agree with this. Instead of sitting inside watching tv and playing dominoes they need to be in the fields working their ass off so they can eat.

**ababyatemydingo** · 01-13-2018, 01:23 PM

Parchman used to be a prison farm.

**Mimi's Babies** · 01-14-2018, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by ababyatemydingo

Parchman used to be a prison farm.

Tom Cook was over the prison and the inmates raised everything they ate. They grew so much they sold to the locals. The prison at that time was self supporting.
Children were taken to the prison during the Spring. The field trip stopped due to children getting up set seeing their parent behind bars.

**Bothrops** · 01-13-2018, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg

I agree with this. Instead of sitting inside watching tv and playing dominoes they need to be in the fields working their ass off so they can eat.

This would be the best crime deterrent.

**Coach007** · 01-13-2018, 01:35 PM

Yeah... 75K per year to house this POS....

**starkvegasdawg** · 01-13-2018, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg

I agree with this. Instead of sitting inside watching tv and playing dominoes they need to be in the fields working their ass off so they can eat.

100% agree. Either in fields providing for yourself or in a classroom bettering yourself.

**Goldendawg** · 01-13-2018, 02:27 PM

When I was in middle school in the late '60's we were taken on a class trip to see life at Parchment, toured the farms, housing, saw gas chamber and electric chair. Trustees were still being used and inmates worked in the fields. Strange, but I bought a homemade knife from a trustee as they were allowed to make and sell to visitors. Trip made a real lasting impact on the class. Sure today the courts have or would make working in the fields cruel and unusual punishment.

**Todd4State** · 01-13-2018, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by Goldendawg

When I was in middle school in the late '60's we were taken on a class trip to see life at Parchment, toured the farms, housing, saw gas chamber and electric chair. Trustees were still being used and inmates worked in the fields. Strange, but I bought a homemade knife from a trustee as they were allowed to make and sell to visitors. Trip made a real lasting impact on the class. Sure today the courts have or would make working in the fields cruel and unusual punishment.

I did the fieldtrip thing to Parchman in the 1990's. It was a lot more like Scared Straight. They had about 4-5 prisoners talking to us about everything that goes on in there- how they kill each other and rape each other and all of that and they showed us some shanks. Basically told us that if we ever came to prison that they would rape us. I wanted to ask the prison guard where the hell they were when all of that was going on? Of course I now understand that a lot of the guards are in on it as much as anything. Sort of like football officials at an Alabama football game.

**Mutt the Hoople** · 01-15-2018, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Todd4State

I did the fieldtrip thing to Parchman in the 1990's. It was a lot more like Scared Straight. They had about 4-5 prisoners talking to us about everything that goes on in there- how they kill each other and rape each other and all of that and they showed us some shanks. Basically told us that if we ever came to prison that they would rape us. I wanted to ask the prison guard where the hell they were when all of that was going on? Of course I now understand that a lot of the guards are in on it as much as anything. Sort of like football officials at an Alabama football game.

I've had friends and relatives in prison. They told me the only difference between the guards and the cons is that the guards get to go home at the end of their shift.

**Mimi's Babies** · 01-14-2018, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Goldendawg

When I was in middle school in the late '60's we were taken on a class trip to see life at Parchment, toured the farms, housing, saw gas chamber and electric chair. Trustees were still being used and inmates worked in the fields. Strange, but I bought a homemade knife from a trustee as they were allowed to make and sell to visitors. Trip made a real lasting impact on the class. Sure today the courts have or would make working in the fields cruel and unusual punishment.

This was stopped in the late 1990's.

**RougeDawg** · 01-13-2018, 02:47 PM

More states need to follow Kentucky?s lead on government programs. If you receive them and are of able body, you must work part time to continue receiving said benefits. Kentucky just passed a bill like this for Medicaid. It?s a damn good start.

**msstate7** · 01-13-2018, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Coach

Yeah... 75K per year to house this POS....

Sounds high

**dawg1** · 01-13-2018, 02:51 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisi...e_Penitentiary

Been here before. I believe they are mostly self sastained.

**Todd4State** · 01-13-2018, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by dawg1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisi...e_Penitentiary

Been here before. I believe they are mostly self sastained.

They're probably almost self sustained from pulling over MSU fans for speeding during football season.

**TUSK** · 01-13-2018, 03:09 PM

Part of this thread reminds me of a TV news interview I saw a few years back after Alabama brought back "chain gangs"... The reporter was from somewhere "more enlightened" and "progressive" and the expose' was to show how archaic the South and this practice was...

And when I say "chain gang", I mean that LITERALLY... a group of inmates were linked together with restraints and were picking up trash on the side of an AL HWY...

The reporter was allowed to interview one of the inmates (he was ~18-19) and it went kinda like this (paraphrasing and truncating):

Enlightened TV Chick: Sir, can you tell me about being on a chain gang?
Oppressed Inmate: I ought not be on no chain, yo... I ain't no dawg...

Enlightened TV Chick: So, what do you think about this practice and the penal system in Alabama?
Oppressed Inmate: It makes me know I don't wanna come back here...

#putthepenalbackinpenitentiary

**starkvegasdawg** · 01-13-2018, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by TUSK

Part of this thread reminds me of a TV news interview I saw a few years back after Alabama brought back "chain gangs"... The reporter was from somewhere "more enlightened" and "progressive" and the expose' was to show how archaic the South and this practice was...

And when I say "chain gang", I mean that LITERALLY... a group of inmates were linked together with restraints and were picking up trash on the side of an AL HWY...

The reporter was allowed to interview one of the inmates (he was ~18-19) and it went kinda like this (paraphrasing and truncating):

Enlightened TV Chick: Sir, can you tell me about being on a chain gang?
Oppressed Inmate: I ought not be on no chain, yo... I ain't no dawg...

Enlightened TV Chick: So, what do you think about this practice and the penal system in Alabama?
Oppressed Inmate: It makes me know I don't wanna come back here...

#putthepenalbackinpenitentiary

Oh the horror. Prison used as a deterrent rather than slightly less comfortable living conditions.

**BoomBoom** · 01-13-2018, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg34

Oh the horror. Prison used as a deterrent rather than slightly less comfortable living conditions.

the best deterrent is would-be criminals thinking they'll probably get caught.

**TUSK** · 01-13-2018, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by BoomBoom

the best deterrent is would-be criminals thinking they'll probably get shot.

FIFY

**Leroy Jenkins** · 01-13-2018, 05:05 PM

Man, looking at the title, I thought this was a BBall thread. Dang.

**gravedigger** · 01-14-2018, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by TimberBeast

Meaning?

You need it explained?

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