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Inmates to work....this is an idea I have been preaching for years. Not only to sift through garbage, but to clean sidewalks, dig drainage ditches etc. I would also have them paint the curbs where necessary, and generally work off their time in the institution. They have forgone their rights as a citizen, and thus we should exploit that by putting them to work in unsavory tasks so that they can really think about their actions. We have a largely untapped resource here!

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for engineers and scientists look a little farther north to OSU, there you'll find an oregon school that actually produces people who can fill jobs. I mean think about it, does the world need journalism majors like Dan Rather, or Chemists that study and work on finding solutions to our energy needs today, shrinks and envoronmental degrees or mechanical engineering, enough said....

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