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Re:You commit three felonies a day by zero_intp on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:09PM (#5862667)
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Re:You commit three felonies a day by angusangus on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:03PM (#5863121)
Indeed. See eg. http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/18/prison-small-business-ent-m... and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272...

Money quote: "Oddo also said that workers were provided enough water, but the prisoners didn't sip it slowly enough."

Also for a sense of scope http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoner... including this irrelevant but salacious detail: 'In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace "Made in Honduras" labels on garments with "Made in the USA."'

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