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Originally Posted by punky
Chain gangs are a great idea in principle. If you had a choice between having a prisoner locked up and on his bed 22 hours a day, and him actually doing something useful. Think of all the cleaning up jobs that don't get done because we can't afford to pay people to do it?
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Is it really that economic though? Consider the costs of transporting the labourers to the site, supervising and guarding, even the beaurocrat who decides where they are going to go, plus the inevitable health and safety admin risk assesment team (if someone got hurt there'd be hell to pay).
Ultimately the real importance here is that anyone given a punishment, knows it is a punishment. To achieve that there needs to be a level of inconvenience and hardship. The namby pamby stuff that frequently serves as comunity service is often just laughed off by the offender.
BTW, where in the article in the original link does it say the offenders will be chained up while doing their hard labour
