NW_Pilot wrote:
Advert's like this!!!

"Are you experiencing high employee turnover? Worried about the costs of
employee benefits? Unhappy with out-of-state or offshore suppliers? Getting
hit by overseas competition? Having trouble motivating your workforce?
Thinking about expansion space? Then Washington State Department of
Corrections Private Sector Partnerships is for you."

http://www.washingtonci.com/_content..._overview.aspx

Prisoners get no health care, substandard working conditions, pennies an
hour.... also look up Unicor and do some reading... here is what i found on
wage!

Unicor currently starts out at about $37.00 per month for 160-200 hours per
month.

That's 24 cents or less an hour sounds like a sweat shop wage to me.....

Slavery is legal and taking place in this country.... Most prisons are
privately owned and operated by corporations to make a profit. There are
more prisons then schools being built in this country. In today's America,
the prison/industrial complex has become the new plantation and the warden
has become the new overseer. This is Slavery!!!!

The 13th Amendment authorizes it, "Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction." The key word here is except!! and being
convicted of a crime "even a minor crime" in the United States is that
exception.

Prisons should be run by government not by private enterprise!!



Slavery is legal in US prisons and it is in the 13th amendment BUT that
doesn't mean it is being used. If you would actually read the website
you posted you will see that the prisoners are paid and even how their
earnings are allocated under the Washington state program.

I love your comment about now health care for prisoners though. They get
that even if they DON'T work. Along with food, shelter and clothing.