Finally some common sense.

According to this news article, the State of Colorado is finally doing something that makes sense. Since local farmers complain that they can't get enough laborers following new laws and crackdowns on illegal aliens, the state has decided to lease out state prison inmates to work on their farms. The farmers have to pay the convicts and probably the state, but it's a lot better then them paying illegal aliens and it does convicts good to actually work and pay back society for a change. Who knows? Some of them might actually learn skills that they can use in honest jobs when they get out.

This is a good idea but it should be just the beginning. It needs to be expanded to employ parolees and welfare recipients too. Anyone who is just sitting around being a burden on the state should be put to work as a condition of getting checks or requiring state supervision. In fact there's no reason that able-bodied welfare recipients can't put in 40 hours a week and get paid directly by the employer instead of us taxpayers just forking money over to them for nothing.

But it''s good to see Colorado deterring illegal aliens by giving the jobs that they seek to convicts. Convicts need to do more than sit around watching tv and working out all day. Let them try some honest labor for a change and if they take up all the farm jobs, the illegals will have fewer enticements to come here and break our laws.