...well over 600,000, and probably close to a million, inmates are working full time in jails and prisons throughout the United States. Perhaps some of them built your desk chair: office furniture, especially in state universities and the federal government, is a major prison labor product. Inmates also take hotel reservations at corporate call centers, make body armor for the U.S. military, and manufacture prison chic fashion accessories, in addition to the iconic task of stamping license plates.
Just incredible that we have actual slavery going on in the U.S. today.
Of course, according to the 13th amendment, being convicted of a crime eliminates your right to be free of slavery or involuntary servitude. Despite that, every state except Georgia pays its inmates
something.
If prison is to have even the pretense of "rehabilitation," then working conditions for these prisoners has got to change. I have little hope of that right now, in a state where the Republican stranglehold is about to get even worse. It's going to be a long-term struggle.
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