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And further more, I say that no prisoner should be forced to do a job that any non prisoner could do for pay. Why take a job away from a person that did not commit a crime and have the government profit on incarcerated labor. Whats next, prisoners selling shoes? Paving the streets? How about $1 a day Postal Workers? I mean it is cheep, it will set a postive example for prisoners, but at the end of the day, it lowers salaries, and takes away work from people that are not arrested.
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I was all for it, but I hadn't thought of this argument.
I'm all for the market place determining things, but I doubt that the market place could/did/would respond fast enough to natural disasters, and that could be the difference between what these people did and a situation where they work for nothing and someone else loses a job. Also, it seems like alot of the tasks they have performed in the past, such as clearing park trails, are tasks that the government might decide were not worth the cost of hiring somebody to do them, anyway. America needs to do something about it's penal system, and I'm glad to hear that something like this is being done.