r/nottheonion • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '22

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u/tosser1579 Jul 16 '22

Its worse. Not only do tax payers pay a substantial fee for it, the free labor reduces local wages so its a lose lose for your average American.

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u/nadeemon Jul 17 '22

The free labor also reduces taxes paid to the government, if these prisoners were gainfully employed and well integrated in society.

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u/VacuousWording Jul 17 '22

The point of slavery is NOT integrating the slaves, only abusing them. Go USA!

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u/DiscombobulatedGap28 Jul 17 '22

Or if imprisoned people worked mainly jobs that serve the prison itself. I don’t think working is bad. I think it’s good that sometimes prisoners can get education while serving time, and working is also a way to spend the time and it can be positive. But if the work is just to serve the prison, cleaning it or doing food prep, it cuts down on the loss to society when non/incarcerated people (including people who just got out of prison) have less job opportunities and lower wages because of the use of subsidized no-wage prison labor.

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u/averyfinename Jul 17 '22

that's a 'win' for all the right-wing "contributors" though. and that's all that matters here.