I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour

Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour by intrasight on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:32PM (#37382061)

UNICOR is a wholly owned government corporation not a private company. Average cost to taxpayers per incarcerated person is about $100K. So let them work for free up until that amount.

But even if it were private, how ethically is this worse than private companies making billions building weapons of mass destruction? Or platforms of mass surveillance?

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Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour by true_religion on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:44PM (#37382168)

Unless you actually use a WMD, the moral cost of simply having it in storage is nothing.

I disapprove of my government using WMDs and I also disapprove of my government enslaving murderers. Whom benefits is besides the point.

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Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour by jjj123 on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:06PM (#37382435)

Who said it was worse? They can all be unethical.

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Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour by FreshStart on Monday September 04, 2023 @02:25PM (#37383360)

So they all should venture into software to recapture the value as fast as possible?

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Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour by ffhhttt on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:33AM (#37388214)

> Average cost to taxpayers per incarcerated person is about $100K

Seems to he false? For Federal inmates anyway..

It was just $35k back in 2019. So it can’t be much more than half of what you’re claiming these days.

* https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/01/2021-18...

> how ethically is this worse than private companies making billions building weapons of mass destruction? Or platforms of mass surveillance?

Doesn’t seem to be even tangentially related?

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