Unicor??? A big WTF!!!

Cheap American prison labor. Doesn't really bother me.

A lot of inmates get taught skills so that they can have jobs when they get out.

 

Welcome to the privatized prison industry. It's essentially slave labor..

That's why the elites want as many people in prison as possible, because it's immensely profitable.

 

Greed

 

[quote name='"Americandutchyz"']

What bothers me is that it's putting private companies who used to have those defense contracts out of work.[/quote]

Well that is the free market at work isn't it. When you can pay people 15 cents per hour for the same job why pay more? I mean that's what these prison people are worth right.

I mean that's the argument I get from people who are against a minimum wage.

 

There shouldn't be anything profitable from locking people in cages.

 

Yeah, I totally agree. Too bad it's been profitable for hundreds of years, hopefully that will end soon.

 

There are now more prisoners working as slaves, than there once were slaves working as prisoners, pre-emancipation proclamation.

Prison for profit is a huge industry, benefitting only a few insiders, while the public is brainwashed into thinking the punishment fits the crime, but the punishment is as much laid on the innocent as the guilty.

These subsidized industries are very expensive to the taxpayers.

Prison labor should be used to produce food, medications, and clothing for the prison populations first, and if any is left over, then sold to the public, but to have these guys basic needs supplied at public expense, while their labors are used to profit small private interests, is screwing society as a whole.

I know of people doing time right now, who's families are going broke, trying to get enough money inside to their family to purchase basic phone and internet access or a pack of cigarettes, which the prison sells to the prisoners at HUGE markups...oh, it's a sordid little business. They charge about $5.00 a minute for phone calls and about $20.00 a pack for smokes in federal lock-up, I hear... to punish, or merely to make profit from.

 

I saw this last night as well, and I almost couldn't believe what I was hearing. That commercial is sicking.

America. The land of opportunity. All you have to do to get work over here, is visit the big house.

 

The US is one of the least-free nations in part because of this... there are more people in prison in the US, per every 100,000 citizens, than ANY other nation. Sounds like freedom, eh'? A huge number of the 'made in the USA' products on the shelves, were made in the nations prisons.
Keep in mind, that this doesn't even count the 3 - 30+ month imprisonments of immigrants facing deportation who are also put to work, and all the immigrants in jail due to crime/fines (an estimated 20% - 30% of inmates in the US, at any given time, are not US citizens... just the US citizen inmate population alone, blows other countries out of the water, but combined with the foreigners, no other country even comes close to jailing as many people as we do).


When slave labor is legal, of course they're going to find as many ways to lock up non-violent offenders, as possible.. for instance, the US is also one of the only countries in the world where people can go to jail, over not paying parking or speeding tickets. Those who are poverty stricken and go into debt serve more jail time in the US than any other nation, as well.
Many counties/states in the US direct their LEOs to hand out tickets for every offense imaginable, most have quotas (20-30 years ago, police claim it was unheard of for them to be so pressured to 'fund' their communities this way), and the judges are also often a bit quick to give people the option of going to jail, rather than paying their fines, at a rate of $10 - $20 a day deducted from their fine, in which case the inmate doesn't even earn their 15 - 25 cents each day.

More money is generated by the end of their incarceration, from their labor, than could be generated by the fines alone. If people can't pay fines and have to opt for jail, the system loses nothing, and gains some free labor. And as a bonus it keeps their inmate population high enough to keep receiving state/federal/private money, depending on the facility.



It's the land of the free, alright... free for someone, anyway

 

The prison industrial complex was born in corrupt relationships between our government and private industry.. This is just same shit different day.

In a fair society those inmates would receive fair market compensation for their labor, but they are probably are not..

I dont know for sure, but something tells me that because of the crony relationship of the prison industry, not only does the prison make money off this, but the company that gets the benefits of "cheap" labor is somehow buddied up with establishment candidates. This has the stench of Crony all of over it.

 

I thought this thread was going to be proof of unicorns....I am disappoint

 

[quote name='"budsmokn420"']I thought this thread was going to be proof of unicorns....I am disappoint[/quote]

Same here haha. Shit...

 

[quote name='"budsmokn420"']I thought this thread was going to be proof of unicorns....I am disappoint[/quote]

Yeah that's definately why I opened it haha.


But the ignorance in this thread is blinding. They don't force the inmates to do this shit. The inmates usually have to be trustees in order to get privileges like that. They beg to be able to do something like that and as mentioned before its so they can maybe make a living for themselves once they get out of prison. The private prison business itself is fucked up without a doubt, but its not slave labor from prisoners, its more of a gift to them.

My father was a prison gaurd for the majority of my high school years.

 

It would be an example of the free market if these guys weren't locked in a cage and there only choice of employment is the prison's manufacturing plant. Last time I checked, these guys weren't voluntarily working for 15 cents an hour. This is an example of corporatism plain and simple, with no doubt about it.