[a3n]

Here's 100 jobs in this building. It's 100 jobs that have to be done, that people will pay for the result. They aren't great jobs, say maybe $13/hour, but they're jobs.

Except no, we're not going to let 100 people have those $13/hour jobs. Instead, we're going to have 100 prisoners do those jobs for free, or next to nothing.

Sorry prisoner slaves. Sorry free citizens.

EDIT: And oh, we also have to pay guards to watch them do those jobs. So not free labor, not really.