My Mississippi Manifest Destiny: Prison laborer in Louisiana

I used my GPS device in Natchez to find the cheapest gasoline in the area--as I often do at home. And I discovered that across the Mississippi in Vidalia, Louisiana was where I needed to go. While there, I came across a prison laborer planting flower beds in front of Vidalia's city hall.

Occassionally I see convict road crews along Chicago area expressways picking up garbage along roadsides, but the prisoners are wearing orange jump suits, not the type of black-and-white outfit, the "traditional" attire, that the prisoner in the picture is wearing.

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