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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by randycupertino on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:38PM (#31784690)
There's actually a great book about this by Shane Bauer, a journalist who went undercover in Louisiana's Winn Correctional Center and wrote a book about his experiences.

It details not only the brutality of the system but also the apathy and corruption of the minimum wage employee guards. So many of the guards themselves run smuggling ops and other deals with the prisoners as they are minimum wage barely screened laborers.

It's a horrific if eye-opening book, an excellent read. I found out about it by another poster on hackernews and highly recommend!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38561954-american-pri...

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by pyuser583 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:21AM (#31787629)
The most fascinating part is how Louisiana doesn’t have prison gangs.

I get that Lousiana is different they use Civil Law and descend from France/Spain, not England.

But, no prison gangs! I figured that was just a universal thing.

They have them in France and Spain … why not Louisiana?

Because Louisiana does things different.

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