[John Jorsett]

If you propose using prisoners like this here in California, organized labor goes nuts and says it’s a scam to give employers scab workers. Plus the prisoner’s rights crowd starts screaming about “slaves”.

[massgopguy]

“Any man playin’ grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box.”

[JSDude1]

well the Bible does say “the borrower (even thief) is a ‘slave’ to the debtor” some of these people have to be theifs (for drugs or whatever), mayby this is they way to “give back”! I HOPE THIS IDEA CATCHES ON.

[PAR35]

Plus the prisoner’s rights crowd starts screaming about “slaves”.

Perfectly legal, Per Section 1 of the 13th Amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

[metesky]

Back in the early sixties when I was at Ventura College (still a JC then) I volunteered with the Ventura County Fire Department for extra monthly cash. We got something like $1.85 an hour when we were fighting fires. But whenever there was a big fire, like the Black Mountain fire in '62, the low and medium security prisons like Chino and Pilot Rock would let a certain number of trustee prisoners out to help on the fire-line. IIRC, they got a day off their sentence for every day on the line.

A good deal for them and a no/low cost deal for the state.