And so chief, this is what I was talking about. Louisiana actually piloted this. I can't remember what parish it was, but they were essentially hiring people in work release programs at a jail to go pick, I think it was like blueberries or blackberries.
It was some kind of like, you know, farm picking, whatever, whatever. And they're making the arguments on the, on this illegal immigration and who's going to pick the farm, right? We all know that that's completely ridiculous, but, but, but there, I think that there, I actually proposed this. I said, you know, there should be a streamline for rehabilitation and there should be a streamline for, for these jobs that can earn them time off if they show up every day or whatever they do.
I think that we can actually have a positive impact and we can close this gap on what we're losing on farms or manual labor, whatever it may be. I'm not saying we're, we need to create slaves. I'm saying that like through halfway houses and, and rehabilitation programs, once they're leaving, it can really actually put them in a position where they can succeed.
And I, and I think that we need to actually invest in that. And I think that we can close the gap very quickly on what we're going to be losing out of the workforce. Well, what I, what I learned when I revamped the programming is you had to make sure it was, it was education.
So there's, if you, if you handle that trash as like an educational program. So we said, okay, we're going to put these guys on the farms, but we're going to teach them the business of farming, not just how to pick. Right.
