Economy Striking garbage workers replaced with prison labor

[Renard]

Lmao 1.50$ an hour, that's lunacy. They've basically got these desperate guys with no outside help willing to do just about anything to get some money so they can buy necessities from commissary. Unethical doesn't even cover it.

 

[PrinceOfPain]

Because illegals in the US have more food and housing and healthcare insecurity than the incarcerated. And so actually need the wages for survival.

So... should the incarcerated remain incarcerated forever? Or are they just something you forget about until you have to deal with their reintegration into the society they were born into?

They're citizens of your society, and in some cases, they were failed by your society.

 

[Scheme]

Lmao 1.50$ an hour, that's lunacy. They've basically got these desperate guys with no outside help willing to do just about anything to get some money so they can buy necessities from commissary. Unethical doesn't even cover it.

Prisoners cost taxpayers a lot of money per prisoner. Think of it as them just paying back society for housing them, despite doing a heinous crime.

Now, undercutting other workers is the real issue here.

 

[Goonerview]

Posting in a necro’d thread

 

[Renard]

Prisoners cost taxpayers a lot of money per prisoner. Think of it as them just paying back society for housing them, despite doing a heinous crime.

Now, undercutting other workers is the real issue here.

If they pay back something, it shouldn't be at the expense of garbage workers who are already struggling at the bottom of society; we agree on that. They didn't do heinous crimes by definition though; they only allow the small time non-violent inmates to participate in the program. Presumably there's also a triage among those to select the ones with the best character. Imagine a murderer being released into the outside world to pick up garbage, that's obviously not going to work out.

 

[Blayt7hh]

So are you for or against prison labor doing city sanitation?

Brand new account bumping an 18 month old thread out of nowhere with no updates. Posts long, rambling post. Really not sure what to make of this one lol

 

[Fluffernutter]

The only problem I have is paying the crimals $1.40/hour. It should be zero.

Why not for every day they work, they get a day removed from their sentence?

 

[TheRealHNIC]

Prisoners cost taxpayers a lot of money per prisoner. Think of it as them just paying back society for housing them, despite doing a heinous crime.

Now, undercutting other workers is the real issue here.

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

Why not for every day they work, they get a day removed from their sentence?

 

[Scerpi]

Lmao 1.50$ an hour, that's lunacy. They've basically got these desperate guys with no outside help willing to do just about anything to get some money so they can buy necessities from commissary. Unethical doesn't even cover it.

Why is it crazy? That $1.50 is all theirs without worrying about essentials... no taxes, room and board paid. Get to drive around the city, be outside and not be cooped up inside a cell all day?

Fuck.. I bet many of them would do for free.

 

[Scerpi]

Prisoners cost taxpayers a lot of money per prisoner. Think of it as them just paying back society for housing them, despite doing a heinous crime.

Now, undercutting other workers is the real issue here.

And not a bad job waiting for them when they get out...