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[dgriffin]

I thought some of you folks might be interested in the vest worn by the guy
in Edmonton, Alberta who murdered a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus travelling through southern Manitoba last Wednesday. I haven't been around the courthouse lately, but this seems like a good idea. I remember reading of an instance where a prisoner began firing in a courtroom some years ago and it took a moment for anyone to realize who was the bad guy. Don't know why he wasn't in orange.

[frankcor]

At the urging of my brother, I'm trying to introduce more color into my wardrobe. I'm learning that Sicilian-Americans, like African-Americans, can wear colors like that yellow because they go so well with their skin coloring. You have to admit, that yellow really works for the individual pictured above. Not many white people could get away with wearing a yellow/blue vest like that.

[Ralph]

I think it would be much more appealing if they had a target printed on it. ;D

[dgriffin]

I'm sure they would get a lot of protests about that, Ralph. But when you think of it, a target on your back and chest would be a constant reminder of what will happen if you try to escape.

[dgriffin]

Frank, I'm one of those truly light skinned Irishmen where yellow just reflects back on my skin and makes me look jaundiced. If wear a yellow shirt, people speculate on the state of my liver. When we had a pool in the back yard, a nosy neighbor asked why I always wore a T-shirt while in the water. "That's not a T-shirt," I responded. "That's my skin."

[frankcor]

LOL, Dave. When I wear a yellow shirt, I have to keep shaking the women off my back.

[rickolney]

Yes, I was entertained in reading this message thread. Dave did make a very good point about the vests. The OCJ transport team to the various Courts could use something like this. Sometimes those shackles and cuffs simply don't 'say' enough.

[corner]

i really miss the zebra stripes nothing says inmate like black and white stripes and shoes without laces.

[rickolney]

Yeah, you know, corner ... I recall roadside chain gangs working in North Carolina with guys on foot with shotguns back in the late 1950s. All of those prisoners swinging a shovel, hoe or rake wearing stripes.

[Clipper]

We don't have chain gangs in Tennessee, but we do have work crews that save the taxpayers money. They wear fluorescent orange striped suits with INMATE written in big letters front and back. They pick up litter, paint county buildings, and do janitorial work on supervised cleaning crews.

I had often thought, while living in NY, that the State Corrections crews that do community work should be dressed in something more easily identified, than the green "dickey work pants, and t-shirts. I was driving a dump truck one summer and was told not to wear my green work pants while delivering blacktop to a job at Mohawk Correctional Facility, if I wanted to be allowed BACK OUT, haha.

[rickolney]

;D Now THAT would be a memory to share! "And then, there was this time at the Mohawk Prison when..."

Heh, heh...

Of course, this is New York State! Why not give each inmate on a road/work crew their own GPS tag?

[Ralph]

When I was living down in Georgia 15 years ago they still had the road crews out with the hoes, rakes and shovels.

And the guy with the shotgun!

[Clipper]

I saw that in Georgia also Ralph, when traveling for the Air Force job. They were an actual chain gang too, with shackles holding them together and the shotgun toting officer watching over them from horseback on some occasions. I think that was because I was really near the "work farm" and they were able to send the guard out on horseback. It was near Macon.