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[font size = "+1"][font color = "red"](Especially since prisoners are being exploited as super cheap labor!):[/font][/font]
From El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
[font size = "+1"] The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?[/font]
By Vicky Pelaez
Global Research, March 31, 2014
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. . . “Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,” comments the Left Business Observer.
Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion. . . . in Colorado, <inmates> get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum <wage>. And in privately-run prisons, [font color = "red"]they receive as little as 17 cents per hour[/font] for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call “highly skilled positions” <emphasis added>.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
[font size = "+1"] The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?[/font]
By Vicky Pelaez
Global Research, March 31, 2014
<SNIP>
. . . “Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,” comments the Left Business Observer.
Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion. . . . in Colorado, <inmates> get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum <wage>. And in privately-run prisons, [font color = "red"]they receive as little as 17 cents per hour[/font] for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call “highly skilled positions” <emphasis added>.
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From El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
