And since for-profit companies are running the prisons, well, where do
you go wit dat?
Prisoners growing their own food. Making there own cloths, whatever.
That seems right. But prisoners making money for people sitting in
some office, not so right. Too easy for some to want to keep more
peps in prison. Or something like that. Just too damn close to slave
labor and work camps for my taste,
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org
> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Eubulides
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:05 AM
> To: LBO
> Subject: [lbo-talk] new frontiers in prison labor
> and racism
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-inmates1mar01,0,7469220
> .story
>
> Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
> Tough laws passed last year against illegal
> immigration have created a need
> for
> farmworkers.
>
>
> By Nicholas Riccardi
> Times Staff Writer
> March 1, 2007
>
> [WS:] What is wrong with exposing criminals to the
> life that working class
> men and women experience every day?
>
> Wojtek
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