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To: SaltyJoe

Nope. Ironically, our prison workforce is paid very well. Their monies go into trust accounts, they get benefits, medical, cable, education....Maybe I’m in the wrong business???


30 posted on 10/15/2007 5:49:56 PM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia
I hope that our prison workforce is “well paid”. BUT, I hope all of their work is given voluntarily. Otherwise, we’d have a problem of slave/prison labor competing against a free market economy which is very bad for business.

Gosh, I hope you’re not in the wrong business. I’ve taken a tour inside a several simple prisons and jails and I know several who’ve paid a debt to society. The money they make is a pittance compared to normal outside life, and their quarters have a whole lot of steal, concrete, and hollow echos. It’s just not a nice place to be for humans. Maybe it seems like the prisoners are making a lot of money because their own overhead cost of living is paid for by the state (us tax payers). But I’m sure a lot of their pay check goes back into their own prison system. It’s a point of interest and deserving of public scrutiny. The ex-convicts I met were bored out of their minds and wanted to work so that the time would move faster.

41 posted on 10/15/2007 9:29:54 PM PDT by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" for the Unborn Child)
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