Should states pass laws to allow prisoners to work off time from there sentences by planting trees?

Question

maybe every tree would knock off 12 hours or a day? Wouldn't this help with prison overcrowding and climate change and deforestation as well as increasing a natural renewable resource at the same time?

Answer 1

Wouldn't tax incentives for law abiding citizens work better than releasing violent inmates early?  How about using welfare or other public assistance recipients that are physically capable?  I think allowing prisoners time off their sentences is not only wrong, as it misleads the victims as to the time the perpetrator will do, it is political suicide.

Answer 2

No, they should have to plant trees for possible benefits within jail, like a TV in their cell or better food choices.  Jail isn't a picnic.  The should be expected to do some sort of work considering what it is costing to house them and what their crimes have cost society.

Answer 3

Good idea, along with other non-skilled duties that we pay our government employees to do or those that are contracted out.

I don't see why low-risk prisoners shouldn't contribute to society as well as pay their own way in prison.

Please send this idea to your State Governor, House Rep. & Senators. We've got both State and Fed. prisoner that owe society more than just their time.