On 09/11/2019 09:44 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
I would find some way to put them to work. Maybe growing their own
food, trainging them for something productive. My dad told me that back
in the 30's and 40's they were building roads. Each night they would
put them in a big tent and chain them up so they could not get away.

I remember seeing gangs working on the roads in Alabama in the '50s. Fob
James brought the chain gangs back but they only lasted a year or so
before the courts shut them down. James had the idea that prison should
suck so bad that if you ever got out you'd never want to go back.

Sheriff Joe had better luck:


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