[Socon-Econ]

What’s wrong with prison labor per se? Prisoners need to be working. Preferably at market rates, which may be considerably less than those of free men whose employment carrier far fewer risks.

[oldasrocks]

Bloomer pants just wants all in jail working for him.

[Svartalfiar]

What’s wrong with prison labor per se? Prisoners need to be working. Preferably at market rates, which may be considerably less than those of free men whose employment carrier far fewer risks.

Eh, I dunno about using prisoners for political (or even private) purposes. But putting them to work, hell yes. There's plenty of public areas that could have work done. Old-school chain gangs. Cleaning trash off of a stretch of road or in a park. Mowing those same places. Janitorial services at every state/municipal building. And so on.