In yesterday's post on prison labor and cheese making, Happy Jack left this amazing powerpoint presentation by Colorado Correctional Industries, the private prison mafia. Entitled, "Motivating Prisoners to Become Business Partners," you can see all the great work you can get prison labor to do...
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The prison-industrial complex finds new ways to generate profit. So it's hardly surprising that probably the industry most exploitative of labor in American history--agriculture--is more than happy to take advantage..
I don't understand why China would force this guy to serve seven months in one of its prisons making Christmas lights for the American market. This is technically illegal since.
Outstanding Ian Urbina story on the exploitation of people held in immigrant detention centers. The immigration detention system serves as a nearly unpaid labor force thanks to the privatized prison companies controlling the prisons: As the federal government cracks down on immigrants in the country...
Arguably capitalism's greatest feat in the last century is the almost complete separation of production from consumption. Modern Americans rarely see where anything is produced, whether food or consumer goods..