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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Prisoners are paid?! WTH?

2 posted on 03/31/2019 6:54:09 PM PDT by madison10

Even I don’t mind a quarter an hour.

Gives them some commissary money and a purpose besides maybe trying to kill a guard.

Any more than a quarter, I’m out.

6 posted on 03/31/2019 6:59:22 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)

"Prisoners are paid?! WTH?"

Yep. They even get paid if they are on "idle" status. That means they haven't been assigned a job or program yet, or they left the job they had, or were kicked out of the program they were in. I retired from NY's prison system in 2003. Back then, "idle" inmates got 15 cents a day.

When I first started at Auburn Prison in 1980, inmates were able to get college degrees. Auburn inmates could get a degree from Syracuse University. Other facilities offered community college classes. George Pataki got rid of all that. Now Andrew Cuomo wants to re-instate it. Makes me glad I'm outta' there.

24 posted on 03/31/2019 9:39:25 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)

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