[bryanrasmussen]

Lots of states force people to work via all sorts of rules like if you don't work you don't get paroled, or it will go badly at the parole board etc. So there you have something that is not required but pretty much anyone who has a hope of getting out someday will be competing for the few jobs available.

[defrost]

> competing for the few jobs available.

The quote given assuming it correct, was that

    800,000 prisoners out of the 1.2 million in state and federal prisons are forced to work,

Two thirds being forced to work doesn't sound like active competition for the few jobs available.

> Lots of states force people to work via all sorts of rules ..

US States .. states in other G20 countries not so much.

[bryanrasmussen]

>US States .. states in other G20 countries not so much.

the article is about the U.S? Not sure what point you are trying to make.

I'm going to have to say there is something fishy about that quote - unfortunately https://usafacts.org/articles/what-are-prison-work-programs-...

I mean if it's 800,000 are forced to work it means that just about every employed prisoner is forced to work. This might be changing the meaning of forced.

There is force where you get moved out on a chain gang in the morning and brought home at night.

There is force where you get told if you don't work we will report to the parole board you refused to work and you won't get your parole at the hearing.

there is force where your family isn't giving you any money and so you need to work to make money.

But while there are lots of people who do not want to work at the jobs available because they suck and are dehumanizing there are obviously jobs that people do want and will compete for.