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When you call a company or government agency for help, there's a good chance the person on the other end of the line is a prison inmate.
The federal government calls it "the best-kept secret in outsourcing" — providing inmates to staff call centers and other services in both the private and public sectors.
The U.S. government, through a 75-year-old program called Federal Prison Industries, makes about $750 million a year providing prison labor, federal records show. The great majority of those contracts are with other federal agencies for services as diverse as laundry, construction, data conversion and manufacture of emergency equipment.
For inmates, the appeal isn't the pay, which can be as low as 50 cents an hour.
Originally posted by Fitch303
Working at all call center is slave labor??? don't be over dramatic. This is how they should earn there keep.
Originally posted by Fitch303
This is how they should earn there keep.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Originally posted by Fitch303
Working at all call center is slave labor??? don't be over dramatic. This is how they should earn there keep.
Well then I suppose you are alright with this business model?
1. Destroy the economy
2. People have no jobs so they turn to crime to make ends meet
3. Lock people up for BS crimes (like drug laws)
4. Use them as cheap labor.
5. PROFIT!
Yeah this will totally end well....edit on 12-1-2012 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Fitch303
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Originally posted by Fitch303
Working at all call center is slave labor??? don't be over dramatic. This is how they should earn there keep.
Well then I suppose you are alright with this business model?
1. Destroy the economy
2. People have no jobs so they turn to crime to make ends meet
3. Lock people up for BS crimes (like drug laws)
4. Use them as cheap labor.
5. PROFIT!
Yeah this will totally end well....edit on 12-1-2012 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
1. That money is left in the pockets of tax payers since the gov won't have to charge them as much since the prisoners bring in revenue
2. Not even sure what the hell your point is what that. Turning to crime to provide ends meet is something only a punk criminal would say. There are plenty of low end jobs people choose not to take.
3. As BS as the laws are they are STILL THE LAWS and people choose to break them......that's there problem.
4. Well derderder should they go look for expensive labor??????
5. And?
Section 1. 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.