This is a win, win, win, win, win solution.
First Win. Take recycling to a higher level, recycling a wider verity of resources. Many people throw products they want to see recycled away, but currently we cannot accomidate these products so we bury them. An expanded recycling industry would be created.
Second Win. Less waste to dispose of and if sorted further could be recycled in the ground more effectively
Third Win. Prisoners will be productive. Adding to society and paying back their debt.
Fourth Win. The money generated by their efforts will help pay for their incarceration, thereby decreasing an ever increasing amount to incarcerate.
Fifth Win. Potential criminals might further be detered if they knew they would have to be trash sorters.
2007-05-30 18:32:45 · 6 answers · asked by Chris 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
Recycling of prisoners, what a brilliant idea! As a society we need to devote resources (money) to putting programs into prison to recycle the law breaking members of society into valuable and valued members of our communities.
2007-05-30 18:42:29 · answer #1 · answered by john doe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(-: They aren't exactly a skilled and highly motivated work force, though. What are you going to do when they let plastics go through with the glass? Put them in prison?
Although, for less serious crimes, if you did this and gave them time off for good-trashpicking, this might work.
We do a lot of recycling here in Japan, but the PTA moms took a tour of the recycling plant. They have dozens of workers who basically have to sort through the so-called recycled trash to make sure it's been sorted properly. So, if your plan provides a "free" workforce for it, as long as the prisoners are kept to a high standard, it sounds like a good idea.
(Although, you wouldn't want dangerous prisoners taking back glass and all sorts of weird stuff to prison. The recycling plant we went to had a "Box of the Weird" of things people tried to recycle -- guns, bottles with pickled snakes, horseshoes. It might provide weapons.)
2007-05-30 18:44:47 · answer #2 · answered by Madame M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recycling convicts? This is not a new idea. It's called residicism.(?sp?)
2007-05-31 08:35:09 · answer #3 · answered by pennyluhu03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm..I'm lost. How do prisoners have anything to do with what I recycle and what I don't recycle?
2007-05-30 18:36:02 · answer #4 · answered by bigtalltom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible bad thing: They might hide some of the stuff they find and fashion it into weapons.
2007-05-30 18:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by Tina Goody-Two-Shoes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ACLU would never allow it. It has too many reasonable, productive points.
2007-05-30 18:38:05 · answer #6 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋