Inmates in the prison system should be required to perform the following functions in order to repay their debt to society:

1. Grow their own food and sell the extra at local farmers markets with the revenue being injected into the DOC system.

2. There should be NO CABLE TELEVISION for inmates (in local jails AND state correctional centers).

3. Inmates should be REQUIRED to perform public services on a daily basis such as roadway trash pick-up, landscaping duties at colleges and universities, etc.

4. Inmates (including at local jails), should be required to become self sufficient through farming and cooking their own food and planning ahead to stockpile resources for the future.

These functions will have a simultaneous benefit of allowing inmates to gain experience with vocational abilities, planning processes, and making it clear that there are consequences for criminal action and that jail/prison in the Commonwealth of Virginia is not a free ride.