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> Companies boast their prison workers receive minimum wage, but
AT&T
> paid prisoner telemarketers $2 per hour in Colorado and in
California
> 80% of the wages go directly to the state. That means a prisoner
who
> is making $4.25 per hour actually receives 84 cents per hour.
>
> Prison Activists Resource Center (www.prisonactivists.org)
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thanks michael.
i guess that would mean a degree of user-pays incarceration, huh.
and an amazing degree of exploitation.
anyone have any estimates on the impact of prison labour as a proportion of gdp, some such figure that would relate it to total US production?
angela