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by strulovich 840 days ago
There’s some variations of prisoners de facto working for below minimum wage, but that’s now what you meant.

The biggest issue, if we ignore moral values and try to keep it a cold hearted calculation (which I don’t agree with), then you have one big problem: making prisoners a profitable business will encourage imprisoning more people. Economy responds to incentives, and this seems to me like a bad incentive.

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We’re already there with corrections labor unions lobbying against decriminalizing drugs.