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How much $$$ is generated from the labor? My impression is that the (very bad) slave labor aspect is a small grift on top of the system. I have seen people star
by pfannkuchen 4y ago
How much $$$ is generated from the labor? My impression is that the (very bad) slave labor aspect is a small grift on top of the system. I have seen people start to talk as if it actually drives the system in a fundamental way, but I have not seen evidence for that position.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoIt would cost "$1.5 billion to pay [CA] prisoners minimum wage."[1] California came close to ending slave labor last year, but the cost of doing so was prohibitive. 1. https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/06/california-prisoners-work-involuntary-servitude/ https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/06/california-prisoners-...
- pfannkuchen 4y agoWell if prisoners are digging holes, you can calculate how much it would cost to pay them minimum wage but it doesn’t mean that the owners of the system benefit from the holes. The relevant question is how much money is made from the output of the prisoner labor. And then, is that amount enough to plausibly provide an incentive to, say, apply political pressure to get more prison labor, as opposed to just being a grift on top of the prison population that would exist anyway without the presence of the grift.