It might be the only way!
Prisoners deserve nothing.
No jobs, books, TV, sports, no visitors but their lawyers, No nothing.
Bread and water and that’s it.
This is a travesty.
The labor they should be doing is what we employ a lot of state and federal workers to do.
I am all for prisoners reasonably earning their keep, staying busy, and perhaps gaining some job skills and some money to work with when they get out.
But rather than impact private business it seems to me they should do stuff like grow their own food, make license plates, clean roadsides, make their own food, make prison clothes, stuff like that.
I suppose that might impact private business in that private companies wouldn’t bid on the above. But it would save taxpayer money, I think as well.
Wow, now we’re just like China! Obama, Turd Worldist-in-Chief..
Just wait until sequestration hits and 120,000 troops lose employment plus 150,000 civilians and contractors plus 300,000 spin-off jobs are axed!
I saw this TV segment on the Fox Report. It said that prisoners are paid between $.23 to $1.15 per hr.
AND yet:
“American Apparel charges $29.44 per uniform, but the FPI uniform costs $34.18 – a 15 percent difference.”
The Fox Report graph cited dibbs.bsm.dla.mil as the source for this information.
No, it’s not a regular job.
I don’t think they make but a few cents an hour.
and if they save the government having to bid and spend a lot more money, then GREAT!
Now if the govt would let taxpayers keep that portion then it will boost jobs (especially done on larger scale)
The government should utilize prison labor FIRST, before hiring even one federal employee.