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To: Crackingham

What's wrong with convict labor? CA has thousands of inmates that could pick lettuce for 8 cents an hour.


12 posted on 12/02/2005 5:10:27 AM PST by edchambers (Neocon foot-soldier of the Haliburton death squad)
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To: edchambers

That's another thing that irritates me. Used to be that prison labor was a major means of support for the prisons themselves. These days the prisons are taxpayer supported.


13 posted on 12/02/2005 5:13:53 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: edchambers
What's wrong with convict labor?

It takes jobs away from people who haven't committed a crime.

19 posted on 12/02/2005 5:30:47 AM PST by Wolfie
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