Big business exploits prison labor instead of paying fairer wages

1. Prisons also profit off of families to put money on family member inmates commissary to put $25 into the inmates commissary the fee is $6.95. We need serious prison reform

2. Companies are using prison labor to subvert any Labor movement. The prisoners are willing to work these jobs because they can get outside of the prison walls/fences for a while and make some scratch for use at the commissary or phone calls ("privileges"). More money funneling its way into the prison-industrial complex.

3. The prison's charge them for the food the prison charge them for they charge them for a lot of things and if they happen to be a private prison that they're contracted with the private prison get all the money the prisoners don't get anything in some cases they get a little bit in other cases the prisoners don't get anything check your information you'll see what I'm saying is true especially these private prisons these so-called not-for-profit prisons if they have a contract with a company they get paid and the prisoners are lucky if they get $0.40 an hour and the private prison gets the bulk of the money

4. This is the slavery that America has been always been able to pull of on black people from the end of slavery!

5. Slave Labour…not prison labour….the 13th didn't end slavery

6. Slave labour…….. What happens to the profit that's made who gets that

7. Corporations should have no business operating any were near any prison system in the US Period!!! Complete conflict of interest!!!!!

8. If you are guilty of a crime not a plea deal. I am pro for prison labour. We out here wondering were our next meal will come from and you just living free, free in the sense of not paying that free.

9. This was in the book Gone With The Wind. The Constitution allows prisoners to be used as slaves. Why do you think prisons are kept full of black men and women.

10. well they do that for extremely long years now btw

11. with an iq-supressed, brainwashed and generally self-centered population, this aint nothing compared to whats coming down the pike. the big pinch is just over the horizon …

12. Nobody saw this coming when they started private prisons.  A total surprise, Amazing.

13. It would be best to pay prison workers the highest wages and to give them the opportunity to compete with the non prison population. CEOing Companies like Boeing shouldn't be off the table either. Quite frankly, the same dumb idea behind local business only is kin here; it's better to chose the best people, products, service etc.. over and above the good old boys strong arming their priveledge.

14. People have become a resource. Especially poor people. They are treated as collateral guarded fed clothed. What for? Why the United states. 1971 gold France Watergate then the drug war. Now the United states houses more prisoners than any

15. People need to wake up to the truth. Stop watching tv! Police are not the good guys! The government lies!start standing up for yourself

16. That 13th amendment wasn't written like everyone interprets it. The amendment was written to abolish slavery. but someone said:" well what if a person is sentenced to prison and they have to work off a debt for stealing or something?" Well let's write unless punishment for a crime after it. corporations and the government just ran with it and everyone got greedy and now they have a new person to exploit

17. Ok…
    If everyone really wanted to completely eliminate prison labor.
    Than, by all means.
    Two things must be implemented.

    First thing…
    Heavily push for a federal mandate that prisoners be paid the full minimum wage. Be it the federal minimum wage or state minimum wage. Whichever is higher in a particular area in addition to full benefits.

    Secondly…
    Push for hyper-automation and A.I. in the workplace.

    Without going on a too long of a tangent.
    The combination of those two will make labor more prohibitively expensive.
    To the point where companies will have no choice but to embrace machine labor.
    What will happen is….
    As companies streamline, automate, and maximize efficiency.
    As machines and other labor saving devices drop in price each year while the cost of human labor skyrockets.
    Automated systems will become so cost efficient to the point where even cheap prison labor wouldn't be able to compete. It'll come to the point where prisons will no longer be able to undercut the competition. Not in the face of cheaper, more efficient machine labor.

    This is the only real practical solution to this problem.
    Anything else is just magical thinking.

18. America is a slave country period

19. They still want to benefit from slavery.💯

20. Swift trucking company uses prisoners here in Arizona and Bose also uses them to build speakers!! Shamefully slavery is still going strong only under the guises of punishment!!!! GTFOH. They get .50 cents an hour, and pay as little as. 05 cents per hour!! SMMFH

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