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>Certainly much better than the current practice of keeping them idle so they
>have time to be socialized to prison gangs.
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>Wojtek
Being "socialized to prison gangs" isn't a matter of having too much time on your hands. It's a matter of survival.
And it's not like prisoners don't work already. Administrators depend on prison labor to keep the prison itself running. Paying less than a dollar an hour to pick crops wouldn't benefit prisoners any more than paying less than a dollar an hour to work in the prison kitchen. But it would certainly benefit growers.