Why not use prison labor to improve our internet?

Meh.

Verizon is already running fiber all over the damn place. I have it in my house now. But as long as or costs a hundred plus a month to turn it on, fuck em.

You’re saying let the convicts out so they could do work on people’s houses? Imagine the cost to guard them and transport them, etc. People would want murderers, pedophiles, etc. in their houses, doing work? No thank you.

I would love to have Comcast again. We don’t have it out here in the sticks, but we used to have it when we lived in town. We only paid about $45 a month for internet with Comcast and there was no bandwidth limit. Living out here in the sticks it’s costing over $90 a month for satellite with HughesNet and we have stupid bandwidth limits, We also can’t use things like Xbox Live or Netflix.

If we can use prison labor to clean up litter on the sides of our roads, I don’t see why we couldn’t use them to give internet to rural folks. I read there are nearly 2 million Americans who are locked up for nonviolent drug offenses. Let them do the work.

I’ve always thought that prisoners the really bad ones like murderers and child molesters should be used for product testing, rather than animals.

It would be perfect. Maybe we would have fast fibre instead of stupid copper wire. They could install the NBN which I would describe here but I don’t know how to do that thing where you click on it and it just shows what your’e trying to show- National Broadband Network in Australia =fail

Are you trying to put people like me out of work?
As a fiber optic specialist, working with the Digital Electronics Group, I will tell you that it is not reasonable to have prisoners just make more fiber!
Having prisoners then install the fiber takes away a lot of union work, which allows people like me to feed their family.
Working with fiber is also an exact science. We have enough knuckle draggers (linemen) placing it. We don’t need more idiots trying to install it.
Plus, you are suggesting the criminals be allowed to go into neighborhoods and work around peoples houses? Have you thought that through?

by the way, it is nice to see you back.

@Katniss

Actually, they used to do precisely that.

And they also used to keep them one per small cramped cell (basically solitary confinement.)

If you want to read about the horrific results, do a little research on Eastern Penitentiary located in Phila. It was infamous for that.

Both of these methodologies were eventually deemed cruel and excessive punishment by a more enlightened legal system.

After they’re done my front yard could use a shrubbery. I’d like it with a 2 level effect. Not too expensive, just a nice pleasant shrubbery. That reminds me of something…

I’d far rather see them doing something meaningful, something that builds character.