Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor
by risyachka on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:02AM
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Prisons don’t incarcerate people. If the money from sales go to prisons and inmates then there is no incentives for judges or prosecutors to incarcerate anyone. If money somehow are connected - this should probably be changed. The fact of selling products to the market is not a problem here.
Yes, all prison labor is bad in all cases.
Why? It's very simple, you're creating a market that incentivizes incarceration. Prison should be about recovery of a human being and trying to create negative incentives so people think about making a crime (this is a bit debatable).
When you create a market for incarceration, what you're saying is "we don't want to lower crime". So yes, it's bad in all cases because we should be creating incentives to lower crime instead of how to make it profitable.