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https://occasionalplanet.org/2010/09/27/prisons-punishment-or-healing/ Progressive Voices Speaking Out Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://occasionalplanet.org/2010/09/27/prisons-punishment-or-healing/#comment-7603 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:06:26 +0000 http://www.occasionalplanet.org/?p=5071#comment-7603 […] Prison reform and prison labor are topics we’ve written about before on the Occasional Planet. American prisons are making tons of money hiring out their inmates for minuscule wages. It’s more than just breaking rocks and stamping license plates too. Companies like Victoria’s Secret, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and even Boening use inmates to sew, run phone centers, assemble missiles, and other manufacturing jobs instead of paying full wages to other Americans. But that’s not all. Private prisons make millions of dollars for filling beds and hosting a large number of occupants. When you start doing the math, it makes you wonder if our legal system is more interested in filling quotas than reforming people who break the law. […]

]]> https://occasionalplanet.org/2010/09/27/prisons-punishment-or-healing/#comment-7097 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:12:32 +0000 http://www.occasionalplanet.org/?p=5071#comment-7097 […] Prison reform and prison labor are topics we’ve written about before on the Occasional Planet. American prisons are making tons of money hiring out their inmates for minuscule wages. It’s more than just breaking rocks and stamping license plates too. Companies like Victoria’s Secret, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and even Boening use inmates to sew, run phone centers, assemble missiles, and other manufacturing jobs instead of paying full wages to other Americans. But that’s not all. Private prisons make millions of dollars for filling beds and hosting a large number of occupants. When you start doing the math, it makes you wonder if our legal system is more interested in filling quotas than reforming people who break the law. […]

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