Instead of Prison, Can we send people to farms for nonviolent crimes?

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shikamaru317 said:

Ka-pi96 said:
What about the people who actually need jobs on farms to earn a living? Just put them out of work for some criminals? What about the cost of the guards to prevent them from just running away, you're going to need extra security since it would be much easier to escape from there than from an actual prison.

^This

I do feel like prisoners should have to work to pay off their debt to society, but I don't think that farms are the answer. Needs to be a job in an enclosed space that's easy to guard, that is crappy enough normal civilians don't want to do it, the kind of job mainly illegal immigrants work, that's two birds with one stone. 

The kind of jobs mainly illegal imigrants do?

Such as picking fruits and stuff at farms?

Either way, I can't imagine many of those type of repetetive, low skill jobs that will be remaining in 10-15 years either way.