Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by providing human-powered electricity

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Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by providing human-powered electricity

Brazil is pioneering a new sort of jailhouse workout, in which inmates ride bikes instead of pumping iron. That’s not because they’d prefer fast inmates to strong ones (either one seems problematic if there’s an incident). It’s because the bikes, unlike weightlifting or prison-yard basketball, help power a nearby town. The program has four bikes, sourced from the police department’s lost and found. The incentive, as the Associated Press reports, is that the more time inmates spend generating pedal power, the shorter their stay in prison will be: By pedaling, the inmates charge a battery that powers 10 street lamps along a riverside promenade. For every three eight-hour days they spend on the bikes, Silva and the program’s other volunteers get one day shaved off their sentences. The inmates don’t charge the lights directly; the energy they generate goes into car batteries t...

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@elsiegilmore » 03 Aug '12, 12am
Well, this is novel. "Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by providing human-powered electricity" Grist [link]
@NotiMx2 » 16 Jul '12, 1pm
Presos en Brasil pueden pagar su sentencia generando electricidad en bicicletas [link] @ecobici @xtrevi
@LizBlakeway » 15 Jul '12, 9pm
@DarrenCAnderson - Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by providing human-powered electricity [link]
@wckong84 » 14 Jul '12, 1am
RT @ChangeBuilders: Interesting way of generating power... [link]
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Interesting way of generating power... [link]
@LMattWRB » 13 Jul '12, 10pm
RT @grist: Brazilian inmates reduce sentences with human-powered electricity [link] // Does this count as sustainable?
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I like this idea...Brazilian inmates can reduce their sentence by riding bikes that provide human-powered electricity [link]
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@Paul_the_Seeker » 13 Jul '12, 4am
1) RT @grist Brazil is pioneering a new jailhouse workout in which inmates ride bikes instead of pumping iron: [link]
» 13 Jul '12, 3am
Interesting. Problematic tho #slavery MT @grist: Brazil pioneering a new jailtime; inmates ride bikes to shave sentence [link]
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MT @grist Brazil pioneers jailhouse workout in which inmates ride bikes to generate electricity instead of pumping iron [link]
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@EcoEvolution » 12 Jul '12, 10pm
Inmates In Brazil Pedal-Power City Lights [link]
@mattgiannasi » 12 Jul '12, 8pm
Love this. Should be done worldwide. RT @mrsgiannasi: @mattgiannasi look! [link]
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hmmmm....interesting concept [link]
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What do you think about jails providing human-powered electricity? [link]
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@MBridegam » 12 Jul '12, 5pm
MT @ghanscom Brazil brings back the treadmill w/bikes. Not "a new sort of jailhouse workout." Oscar Wilde knew it well. [link]
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