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> I feel like this article is pointing a gun at the wrong faces. These companies are most likely doing this as a form of social giving.

No, they're doing it because they know they can severely underpay these workers and treat them badly, knowing that they have no recourse to push back.

People who run such businesses rarely have any pure motive. It's all about the profit and they don't care who suffers in the pursuit of it.

Now if they'd provided the prisoners with a decent wage for their work, that would be a different matter, and indicative of some good intent. But none of these companies are going to do that, when they know they have a source of people they can continually exploit.

[jiofih]

The companies are purchasing from a distributor. They don’t decide the pay or conditions just as they don’t for other suppliers. They probably only choose to purchase because of that label and price.