So perhaps the solution is pay prison workers the prevailing wage scale, and then deduct costs of housing, food, restitution, and bank the rest for them when they have paid their debt to society. Sometimes the cruelty of so-called conservatives astounds me.
Farm raised and processed by inmates. What could go wrong.
Farm raised and processed by inmates. What could go wrong.
That’s the point. If what you say was done, the cost advantage of using prison labor would be lost, so there would be no reason to use it. The union argument is, if you’re going to pay full wages, use law abiding employees. There is nothing wrong in training convicts skills, but making employees of them is taking jobs from those who obey the laws.