Federal prison laborers are exempt from constitutional protections and state regulations regarding safety, benefits and minimum wage. Meanwhile, the taxpayer shells out more and more dollars for prison construction while private corporations, as well as federal and state bureaucrats profit from the misery of incarceration..
~ Nora Callahan ~ November.org
cheap, captive labor in the us, is big business
no wonder why the war on drugs will never go away
just round them up and put them to work
think about it!!
Workin' For The Man
30 states currently contract prison labor to private corporations
while prisoners get pennies on the dollar for their efforts
prison industry sales have more than quadrupled in a six year span
Knowing all this and knowing that a prisoner can have a "net worth" of say, $10,000 per day in the money markets, helped me explain to many bewildered women why they were in jail. We were only merchandise in a warehouse. The storage was pretty cheap; one woman while in jail researched the cost of feeding prisoners per day which ranged from 74 cents to $2.72 per prisoner per day.
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