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[StephanieVanbryce]

Privately OWNED PRISONS are TAKING JOBS away from the PRIVATE sector companies ...

Slave Labor comes to Montana and could cost competing businesses civilian jobs

Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 03:34 PM PST

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Thursday another article hit the news, this time from Montana . A small business in that state has stated they can't compete against another business partnered with the Montana Correction Enterprises (MCE) and using inmate labor to undercut their pricing on products. In addition the private sector owners of J&R Planning claim that their proprietary technology to produce the products now made by prisoners was stolen from them by the other company's owners. Boy does this sound familiar to what has happened in Florida? Theft of technology by prison operators to feather their nests? Of course, it's all for the good cause of "training inmates, right?"

....MORE and LINKS..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/18/946648/-Slave-Labor-comes-to-Montana-and-could-cost-competing-businesses-civilian-jobs