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Comment by nemomarx

4 days ago

we do have a lot of prisoners though, and they do various factory kinda jobs. probably not high skill ones though?

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0_____0  4 days ago

It depends, there are definitely things like carpentry and other manufacturing that prisoners do that I wouldn't call 'unskilled' by any stretch. One big reason to pay prisoners appropriately is that otherwise they affect the labor rate for trades that overlap with how prison labor is currently utilized.

  • mschuster91  4 days ago

    > One big reason to pay prisoners appropriately is that otherwise they affect the labor rate for trades that overlap with how prison labor is currently utilized.

    Ask tradespeople how much they like competition from prisons or, in Germany, subsidised workplaces for the disabled.