[strulovich]

There’s some variations of prisoners de facto working for below minimum wage, but that’s now what you meant.

The biggest issue, if we ignore moral values and try to keep it a cold hearted calculation (which I don’t agree with), then you have one big problem: making prisoners a profitable business will encourage imprisoning more people. Economy responds to incentives, and this seems to me like a bad incentive.

[9991]

We’re already there with corrections labor unions lobbying against decriminalizing drugs.