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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by alistairSH on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:30AM (#19543013)
It's not worse, but none of them pay anywhere near market wages, which offends some people. I have mixed feelings about all prison labor. I'd prefer we paid a more reasonable wage, but it's nowhere near the top of my list of things I'd change if I were to wake up king one day.
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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by ptaipale on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:36AM (#19543057)
Considering that housing and food is "free", the Finnish prisoner pay of around 5 € per hour is actually quite close to market wage, if not even above...

(There's no legal minimum wage in the country, though collective agreements have legally binding minimum wage clauses in branches of business where they are applicable.)

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Re:Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor by alistairSH on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:59AM (#19543269)
Ah, that's orders of magnitude more than US prisoners are paid. Looks like average is below $1/hour.[0] Which is actually lower than I had imagined and makes me want to retract my previous comment about mixed feelings. :|

0 - https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

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