How corporations buy and food made with prison labor

Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by jiofih on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:35AM (#27206339)

I don’t see how selling to the outside world is a problem in itself. It connects with the community and gives the workers a much more fulfilling sense of accomplishment than doing it as a hobby.

What you described only holds true if:

1. There is nobody overseeing policies regarding prices, compensation and workloads.

2. The “business” or workforce can be grown to increase profit

3. Work is mandatory

Both 1 and 2 point to a private prison system being a problem. They have little oversight, and are incentivized to increase the # if prisoners instead of it being an expense.

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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by kstenerud on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:01AM (#27206513)

Selling to the outside world is not a problem PROVIDED the producer of said products can set the asking price for their labor and the (free) market itself dictates what they can get. This is never the case with prison systems, public or private.

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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by risyachka on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:08AM (#27206561)

Selling is not a problem whatsoever. The laws that regulate prison wages should probably be changed.

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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by kstenerud on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:24AM (#27206676)

Which is great in theory, but the only people interested in influencing such prison laws are the trade groups that represent those who benefit from the status quo.

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