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When they're upper decking their boss.

 

depends

 

Tired: Convict leasing to the mines and cotton plantations

Wired: Convict leasing to restaurant row

https://www.al.com/news/2023/12/fas...n-inmates-as-slave-labor-lawsuit-alleges.html

 

and just like that, I was a veteran.

 

The Governor, Attorney General, and Parole Board *should* get the hell sued out of them.

Note also that the work release prisoners, denied parole because they were unsafe to release, work those eight hour jobs unsupervised... so how dangerous are they again?


New Report Exposes Parole Board Behavior and Outcomes


"Of the 267 public hearings observed, the Parole Board granted only 19 paroles: 16 in June and three in July. The Parole Board also voted to set the maximum time period for reconsideration for nearly 75 percent of the individuals denied parole during those hearings. For one-quarter of the denied paroles the Team observed, the Parole Board’s denial meant the applicant would remain in prison for the remainder of their sentence without another opportunity for parole.

Additional trends identified by the Parole Watch Team this summer include: "

• A majority of parole applicants (86.5 percent) assigned to work release facilities were denied parole even though they have been vetted by the Alabama Department of Corrections as people who can safely work in our communities. The Parole Watch team observed 74 parole hearings involving parole applicants assigned to work release facilities, and only ten were granted parole.
  
• The Attorney General’s Office and/or VOCAL opposed parole in at least three of every four (78.3 percent) parole hearings. Leigh Gwathney, the Parole Board Chair, followed the AG Office’s recommendation and voted to deny parole in 100 percent of the cases opposed by the AG's Office.
  
• White applicants are more than twice as likely to be granted parole than Black applicants, even when Black and white parole applicants are similarly situated. "

 

Y'all can have your pies and cakes
(And funneled dough at county fairs)
But any slacker worth a damn
Says, "Fuck that, bring me more eclairs!"

 

That's gotta be one of the dumbest NYT headlines in NYT history. ... Also, cheesecake sucks.

 

Yep

 

LOL, good god, what a total dumb fuck.
Is that really South Cackalacky's finest?

 

We base our judicial system on the movie “Heat” here.