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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.