Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump's wall

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Thu Jan 5, 2017 | 1:10pm EST

Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump's wall

By Scott Malone | BOSTON

A Massachusetts county sheriff has proposed sending prison inmates from around the United States to build the proposed wall along the Mexican border that is one of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's most prominent campaign promises.

"I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said at his swearing-in ceremony for a fourth term in office late Wednesday.

"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 said.

Hodgson, who like Trump is a Republican, said inmates from around the country could build the proposed wall, described by Trump as a powerful deterrent to illegal immigration.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inmates-idUSKBN14P1N7

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Hodgson is a long-time asshole who brought chain gangs to Massachusetts among other outrageous acts.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Someone clearly wants to follow in Arapaio's footsteps. nt

[1965Comet]

2. GENIUS IDEA!

Plan to deal with expensive prison costs on Mass state budget:

1.) Offer to send inmates to Texas to build border wall.
2.) Look other way while inmates escape chain gang.
3.) Now MA criminals are free in Texas, and no longer costing the MA taxpayers any money!

[coco22]

3. Goody..

Now they will have enough training on how to breakout of jail more efficently.

[pangaia]

4. FFS who is this nutbag???

[riversedge]

5. Well, donny said Mexico would pay for the Wall. I assumed labor was included.

[Initech]

10. Still doesn't include cost of materials and maintenance.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Photo of the sheriff...

[SaschaHM]

7. Is this any different than the prison "labor" industry as it stands now?

"preserve jobs and work opportunities for them" - So is Trump going to commit to banning the box as well now?

[NWCorona]

17. Unfortunately no. Prison labor is slave labor. Just like company towns

[pipi_k]

8. And so this wall...

what's it going to made from?

Unless it's made from, say, popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue, it will probably require some degree of skill.

Bricklayers don't just grow on trees.

People who can work concrete don't grow on trees either.


Or hey...maybe they can take a page from the Egyptians and drag in huge blocks of limestone or whatever the hell other kind of stone is down in the area of the proposed wall and the inmates can CARVE nice squares for the wall.

Never mind the fact that it took about 2200 years to build the entire Great Wall of China... I'm sure prison inmates could probably build a wall separating the US from Mexico in half that time!

Yep...big plans start with big ideas...

[Initech]

11. John Oliver destroyed the wall theory last year:

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[panader0]

12. Damn right! Signed, a bricklayer for forty years.

[DLevine]

9. Dumbass. nt

[pangaia]

13. So I just emailed Sheriff Hodgson...

If you don't hear from me in 2-3 days.. I'm in jail...

[Vinca]

14. Hasn't he heard? It's now chain link fencing.

Everything the ManBaby promised is rapidly going down the drain. Still waiting for yesterday's promise about telling us what he knows that no one else knows about Russian hacking.

[nykym]

15. Great Idea Not

Just a hop skip and a jump to freedom across the border...

[dbackjon]

16. Then build the wall in Massachusetts. We don't want it in Arizona

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. We might, once Hodgson is on the other side of it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. This guy has always been a publicity hound.