[knome]

Selling prisoners as underpaid slave labor means everyone else now has to compete against companies using that slave labor. It's essentially cutting us twice. We both pay to house and feed the employees/contractors of the company benefiting who then undercuts us by not bothering to pay them.

Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center. The ramifications of doing so create gross incentives.

[reactordev]

>Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center.

That ship sailed post American Civil-War. We've made it part of our culture. Every prison charges their inmates to be there. Per Diems. It used to be tax payers but... they found out they could double dip.

[squibonpig]

This is the kind of thing it's relatively viable to address legislatively, and which would be well within the overton window if it were given more attention.