To avoid two bad things, the following should be true when a company uses prison labor: - The prisoner should be able to freely choose to work or not to work.

To avoid two bad things, the following should be true when a company uses prison labor: - The prisoner should be able to freely choose to work or not to work. - The prisoner should be able to choose whom to work for and be able to quit. - The prisoner should be making the same wage as someone not in prison. This wage may be garnished by the jail to pay for prison (separate topic), but it should still cost the company the same as a non-prisoner laborer. The bad things that are avoided are: - being unethical - making sure corporations don't lobby to expand prison labor - which could have the side of effect of criminializing things that most people don't consider crimes.