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Work that gives job skills helps because many criminals are caught in a cycle. Basic education would work as well, perhaps even better. The problem is that th
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
Work that gives job skills helps because many criminals are caught in a cycle. Basic education would work as well, perhaps even better.
The problem is that the work they done is used to replace standard jobs and to make a decent profit for those in the chain, which creates a perverse incentive where you now have those who wish for more prisoners as they will make more money. We already have a problem with overcriminalization of actions.
- sliverstorm 11y agoThat's kind of an unsolvable problem. There has to be some incentive for people to go through the trouble to use prisoner labor. If you take away that incentive there won't be any work for them, which seems like a loss if the ability to work for modest pay is good for them. In general you would hope a handful of employers who like using prisoner labor wouldn't have so much sway in the country as to single-handedly crank up the incarcerated population for their own gain.