Comments on: Orange Jumpsuit Guys.

By: RWB

RWB — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:23:23 +0000

Hey Jim, why not write about the disaster the State of NJ created on the back or front, never
can get that straight at the Legion. The last time it was cleaned up it was done by labor from
the SLAP program, Sheriffs Labor Assistance Program. Gives the gentle folk doing time in the
County Jail a day out in the sun. Rich

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:53:33 +0000

Speaking of Johnny Sack, I love to watch him smoke. He’s got smokin’ style.

By: dogette

dogette — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:15:06 +0000

Sluggo made me laugh.

As for litterbugs, and here I’m referring strictly to the people I see tossing stuff out their car windows in front of me as I drive, WITH attitude — would a chain-gang be too harsh?

By: Sluggo

Sluggo — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:59:14 +0000

Somewhat off topic, but I thought Johnny Sacks looked better in his orange jumper than in his tux.

By: gregor

gregor — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:41:13 +0000

Jim, how could you..? You’ve let the cat out of the bag. Now all those poor “visitor-workers’ from our friendly neighbor to the South will be clamoring to find their way into NJ prisons so they can “do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do..”, like picking up trash from the side of highways. What will happen to those poor “minimum custody inmates” when their only outlet from the boredom of prison life is taken away from them by invading hordes of chicas and chicos, storming the prison gates like a scene from a Frankenstein movie, demanding that they, too, be issued fancy orange jumpsuits and be allowed to pick up trash along the turnpike? Hey, wait a minute… that would kill two birds with one stone, wouldn’t it? Damn, you might be on to something here. Call the Border Patrol and tell them to back off, we’ve got trash to pick up! Let ‘em in and let ‘em have at it. It would probably be cheaper for NJ tax payers to foot the bill to house them in the prisons than to hand out the usual “social program” dole.

By: rita

rita — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:13:07 +0000

Both Washington & Benton counties do that here on I-540. I think it’s a great program, gives the inmates something productive to do and helps keep I-540 looking a little nicer. Not that it lasts long. It’s unreal how much roadside trash there is. And it’s not so much people throwing things out as it is construction trash blowing out of the backs of trucks.

My dad talks about back in the day when state inmates worked at the ‘pea patch’. Some type of farming I gather, and rough enough that most didn’t want to return. I’ve heard rumors of more than a few bodies buried in the ‘pea patch’, so it must’ve been pretty bad.

By: DMerriman

DMerriman — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:36:41 +0000

The folks that throw the crap out on the side of the highway should BE some of the Orange Jumpsuit Guys (and Gals).

By: Catfish

Catfish — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:56:06 +0000

At the state pen in Georgia some of the bad guys in orange farm and raise cattle and hogs for all the other pens in the state. They also raise veggies and can them for a little, or no cost to the taxpayer. They help feed the pens in all of the state.