Genpop.org posted an excellent article on prison industries (the practice of private businesses contracting, or outsourcing some of their work to prisons). Prisoners are paid ten or twenty cents an hour so they can purchase food items and other necessities from the prison canteen (items priced way above the amount charged in regular stores).
Companies like Procter and Gamble, Kroger's, and Nestles find it cheaper to pay prisoners than free citizens or to oursource to foreign countries. The author asks, "Can a 'Just Society' ever allow a profit to be gained from the imprisonment of its citizenry?"
Be sure to read PLANTATION INDUSTRIES/MODERN DAY SLAVERY, INC.
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Read The Women of Block 12: Voices from a Jail Ministry
for
more information about women in prison
Companies like Procter and Gamble, Kroger's, and Nestles find it cheaper to pay prisoners than free citizens or to oursource to foreign countries. The author asks, "Can a 'Just Society' ever allow a profit to be gained from the imprisonment of its citizenry?"
Be sure to read PLANTATION INDUSTRIES/MODERN DAY SLAVERY, INC.
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Read The Women of Block 12: Voices from a Jail Ministry
for
more information about women in prison and one woman's experience answering "411" calls from a California prison facility.
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