When the slaves were freed and plantations and southern towns still needed work to get done, what had been free, now had to be paid for. The people in charge, who resented having lost the Civil War and slave ownership, found a way to continue slavery by giving it a different form.  If in the name of justice you started arresting people and putting them in jails and prisons, you could justify using them as free labor in the name of rehabilitation and skills training.

This explains why more Black men in the South were arrested than White men and why they got ridiculously long sentences for even the most minor crimes. This meant having to come up with a “reason” for all these arrests, and the Black man as innate criminal was born.

Jim Crow laws were not so much to deprive Black people of certain rights and practices that the Whites had, but, rather, these laws were designed supposedly to keep the races separate so Black on White crime could be minimized. The designers of these laws presented them as positives and not negatives. They were not to punish the wicked, but to protect the innocent from them.

Since Black men had a propensity to commit crime, having so many in custody seemed acceptable and logical to the masses, and oddly, where more work needed to be done, more Blacks committed more crimes.

The use of prisoners replaced slaves as the source of free labor.

Roads were built by chain gangs at a much lower cost than if they had been built by a company whose workers would have salaries to cover.

I am new to Bristol County on the South Coast of Massachusetts, and that being the case, I do not know as much as I need to about it.

I spent almost two decades in a rather regressive state in what is either the South or the South West area of the United States depending on who claims what, which makes its location a rather fluid thing. It claims the confederacy as part of its heritage even though in the 1860s it was Indian Territory, and would not become a state until 40 years after the Civil War. But it did, and does, favor the Southern approach to things.

So the prisoner as slave is not a foreign concept to me.

When he was sworn in as County Sheriff this past week Thomas Hodgson made an offer to President-elect Donald Trump to have inmates from Bristol County help build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall,” he said at his fourth inauguration.

“Aside from learning and perfecting construction skills, the symbolism of these inmates building a wall to prevent crime in communities around the country, and to preserve jobs and work opportunities for them and other Americans upon release, can be very powerful.”

He calls the Project N.I.C.E., National Inmates’ Community Endeavors.

Just as in the South, Hodgson says his policies focus on rehabilitation rather than recreation. Apparently his jails are presently some sort of country club if all the inmates do is play games, sit around the pool, and have afternoon cocktails, instead of taking Vocational Education classes or working on local projects.

But it is obvious that he is just using the program to appear tough and to answer a political need. He wants something, and will use the inmates to get it.

If his motivation were truly to benefit the inmates with job training and rehabilitation, why not have work done locally and not in a national spotlight where his name will keep coming up while the inmates will just be anonymous numbers with no guarantee this job training will result in employment when their sentences are up.

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He also suggested his inmates could be used to help out after natural disasters.

“Think of how much good could come of 500 or 1,000 extra hands in rebuilding a community after a disaster, and the inmates would learn valuable construction skills and on-the-job training as part of their rehabilitation”.

Since the wall would cost a projected $25 billion, prison labor would save a lot.

But, since county jails are not necessarily long term facilities, the Sheriff would have to find ways to keep the inmates coming.

That could be done easily by arresting more people, even for the slightest infractions, increasing the length of sentences, and rounding up more replacements as needed.

Look, there’s  Brown guy!

Of course the question does come up as to who will pay for this program.

Certainly the taxpayers of Massachusetts will not like to be saddled with footing the bill for transporting and housing the inmates in Texas, especially since it was clear from the last election that the wall may not be a popular idea here.

The rest of the country should not pay for the transporting and housing of prisoners to support a local program. After all too much government spending is not something the minority of voters seemed to support when they gave Trump the electoral college based on just a few thousand votes.

Trump said that Mexico would pay for the wall anyway, but, somehow, I do not see it sending money this far North.

So perhaps before anything is done, the Sheriff should establish who signs the check.

 

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