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A whopping $0.14-$1.41 per hour. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

• marshmallow_12 6y ago
  I still think it's better then sitting and staring at the walls, yet that option is open to them .
  • to11mtm 6y ago
    It's a worse option for everyone: - Pushes down wages for other workers doing similar labor, by taking demand out from the normal market - Because the prison itself (or, more likely, the prison-industrial-complex corporation running it) is seeing a huge profit from these ventures, it provides a perverse incentive to keep their labor pool 'strong', be it through lobbying for harsher sentences, or encouraging shot quotas amongst their guards/COs. - Conditions prisoners towards working less for equal work (we shouldn't encourage the idea that -any- class, race, or creed of human being is worth less for the same amount of work)
  • SilverRed 6y ago
    No its not, because that work generate value for companies at a very low cost. So it both builds a system that pushes for more people in prison and displaces workers who would have been paid higher. Prisoners should be given some kind of work / study / something. But it should't generate value for anyone but the prisoner or perhaps lower costs for the prison (cleaning/etc)
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