"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> Some cities here in the US use either convicts or the mentally
> handicapped to sort recycling, eliminating the need for folks to
> separate things out. Probably someone realized that a convict or
> mentally handicapped person is better capable of this task than the
> average consumer.... I think Chattanooga Tennessee is one of those
> cities, and IIRC it's doing quite well (killing two birds with one
> stone sort of thing).

You mean they consider mentally different people as convicted criminals,
except they have no trial  ?

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