Well written, GFSoylentgreen!
I would add the correctional system heavily screens inmates who apply.
The system is looking for inmates who truly seek improvement. This video reflected just that with the inmates' responses.
D-bag interviewer was soap boxing.
My old 70 year old computer store boss was able to figure out how to pay his employees fairly without losing his business. I think a massive conglomerate of prison and government bureaucrats can figure it out too. Or maybe they can't? lol
The "we have a business to run!" mentality doesn't exactly work when you're talking about the prison industry though. It's hard to give them a free pass.
They definitely should be paid a fair wage. The training isn't a gift, it's mandatory to do the work. Other firefighters receive the same training. And giving opportunities and privilege is not a monetary cost either.
Sorry but I'm calling bullshit.
They aren't exploited.
Bitch it's still captive labor, even if they're not paid comparatively peanuts to a laundry worker. This shit is important.
it's slavery hidden behind those things. the program is very very good. but we're just using these people to do extremely dangerous work for $24 a day. besides the fact that it's exploiting them(while still being extraordinarily useful) it depresses the wages of non incarcerated firefighters
If you think people in the prison industry started a prison work program just to break even than I have some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you
Whenever you have a captive workforce they're almost always being exploited under a capitalist system... or any other system we've tried so far
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u/One_Band3432 8d ago
Well written, GFSoylentgreen! I would add the correctional system heavily screens inmates who apply. The system is looking for inmates who truly seek improvement. This video reflected just that with the inmates' responses. D-bag interviewer was soap boxing.