forced upon unwilling mothers by the state and entitled to recompense. THAT should get Republicans attention.

He said in all honesty, of course we can produce the goods more cheaply than any company could. We pay inmates pennies on the dollar, with, as someone mentioned, no workers’ compensation, little or no training

many of us do not remember the chain gangs that built roads , etc.


https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/chain-gangs/
A wide variety of companies such as Whole Foods, McDonald's, Target, IBM, Texas Instruments, Boeing, Nordstrom, Intel, Wal-Mart, Victoria's Secret, Aramark, AT&T, BP, Starbucks, Microsoft, Nike, Honda, Macy's and Sprint and many more actively participated in prison in-sourcing throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

There is no way average workers can compete with this free labor. The government covers the prisoner's food and board. Tax payers pay for the prisoner's clothes and health care. The corporations need do nothing for these prisoners and get all the labor they want for free.

These corporations can out perform their competition because they get free labor. This is a slave economy competing with capitalism.

China does this too, that is why a lot of their products are so cheap.

Since we have already taken away a woman's right to bodily autonomy the next thing will be to force prisoners to give up their body parts if their organs are a match for a filthy-rich man on a donor's list. China and Russia do this too.

So much for capitalism. Are we now a slave economy?

I don't know if they are still doing this but I remember getting a guy calling to sell magazines acting like Moose and Rocco telling me to buy them or else. Then I heard it reported prisoners were being used.

There is just so little about our history of "winning" that doesn't include cruelty and cheating.