Is charging prisoners a “full rate for the economic and societal damage they caused” somehow connected to the issue at hand? Sounds like a false dilemma here.

Is charging prisoners a “full rate for the economic and societal damage they caused” somehow connected to the issue at hand? Sounds like a false dilemma here. Because the prison doesn’t have to pay fair wages, it takes work from others that would earn better wages—this unfairly concentrates wealth in the hands of prison owners at the expense of free workers who are competing in the same market.