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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by leetcrew on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:51AM (#19461629)
most people rightly oppose slavery. but confining people to cages for years at a time is pretty bad too. if it's possible to justify imprisonment in the first place, are all forms of forced labor significantly worse? what if the prisoners get training as webdevs and have to spend 6-8 hours on weekdays improving the UI of government websites. they get an aeron chair, free coffee, ping pong, etc., and when they get released they have some experience to list on their resume. kind of an absurd proposal, but hopefully it illustrates the point of my question: is it immoral to have them do literally anything to defray the cost of their imprisonment?
Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by AlexTWithBeard on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:18AM (#19461790)
Your proposal is not absurd.

They used to do it in the Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka).

Not exactly aeron chairs and ping pong tables, but way better than the regular prison camp.

Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by conanbatt on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:04AM (#19462581)
The thing is that then the warden sells of the inmates to make money on himself or through the state.

California paid inmates fighting fires a dollar an hour.

Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by leetcrew on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:37AM (#19462893)
this is a non sequitur to my post. I asked a pretty specific question that you have not answered in your reply.
Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by conanbatt on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:31PM (#19464173)
Did you edit your post? Im pretty sure I answered something that was above the first paragraph and isn't there anymore. Otherwise it was meant for some other post, disregard.
Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by leetcrew on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:56PM (#19465063)
nope, only edit was to correct my spelling of "aeron". no worries, I often reply to the wrong post in deep threads.
Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by CarlSchmitt on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:33PM (#19464195)
> is it immoral to have them do literally anything to defray the cost of their imprisonment?

It depends on your definition of immoral...