>Are prisoners still forced to provide cheap "American" goods that would otherwise come from China? It's worse than that. One prison rents their inmates to a c

>Are prisoners still forced to provide cheap "American" goods that would otherwise come from China? It's worse than that. One prison rents their inmates to a company which has them cold calls people and pretend to be a charity in order to sell them overpriced crap "American Helping Hands" http://www.americanhelpinghands.org/Products.aspx http://www.americanhelpinghands.org/Products.aspx >An odd thing to say about a slate article, but I think they're overthinking it. I've seen this same trope going around recently that drug law reform won't help us control the prison population, usually as an excuse not to reform drug laws. If you get caught with drugs, you may well be breaking other laws that allow police or D.A.'s to charge you as a violent or higher level offender. Caught with drugs and a gun? Your gun possession may have been legal in absence of the drugs but now you may be on the hook for a/another felony. Did you "resist arrest"? They love this stuff because they think it makes them look more effective.