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> Taken to its logical conclusion, private companies are making money hand over fist with private prisons, from the amount taxpayers pay to house inmates, and from modern day slave labor of prison “jobs” making products.

Tho it's not just private prisons, even federal prisons and state jails have massive rat-tails of private industries servicing them [0]

Nor are private companies the only ones outsourcing labor to prisons, the US military is also doing it [1]

[0] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html

[1] https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/unicor_about.js...



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Just Chinese prison labor get any return at all? Apparently we give 4% back to the prisoners although it is vague as to how.

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