SLAVE LABOR IN PRISON BY
TOP CORPORATIONS SOME PAY AS LITTLE AS 17 cents an HOUR! WE THE PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN ROYALLY SCREWED BY MONEY, GREED, AND A CAPTIVE WORKFORCE OF
MODERN SLAVES! These inmates cannot call in sick, do not get vacations, they are there ready to work every day!
Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons.
The list of corporations using inmate slave labor will "BLOW YOUR MIND"
The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society:
IBM, Boeing
Motorola
Microsoft
AT&T
Wireless
Texas Instrument
Dell, Compaq
Honeywell
Hewlett-Packard
Nortel
Lucent Technologies
3Com Intel
Northern Telecom
TWA
Nordstrom’s
Revlon
Macy’s
Pierre Cardin
Target Stores
and many more.
All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion.
Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month.
The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call “highly skilled positions.” At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an hour and work eight hours a day, and sometimes overtime. They can send home $200-$300 per month.
Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.
[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe manufacturer that “there won’t be any transportation costs; we’re offering you competitive prison labor (here).”
NOW if this article does not make you, as an American Citizen, fighting mad I do not know what will!
To be quite honest when I read the contents of this article it made me sick! I knew that Corporate America would 'stoop low' to 'beef up' their profit margins; however, I had no idea they would stoop this low. Now I understand how the upper echelon can afford to receive such outlandish bonuses. They are receiving they monies [off the backs of the new 21st Century SLAVE LABORERS]. While We The People are starving and cannot find EMPLOYMENT!
WE THE PEOPLE must "Stand UP and Say SOMETHING!"
I am Justin's [I am an American and I am tired of getting SCREWED] momma
Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons.
The list of corporations using inmate slave labor will "BLOW YOUR MIND"
The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society:
IBM, Boeing
Motorola
Microsoft
AT&T
Wireless
Texas Instrument
Dell, Compaq
Honeywell
Hewlett-Packard
Nortel
Lucent Technologies
3Com Intel
Northern Telecom
TWA
Nordstrom’s
Revlon
Macy’s
Pierre Cardin
Target Stores
and many more.
All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion.
Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month.
The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call “highly skilled positions.” At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an hour and work eight hours a day, and sometimes overtime. They can send home $200-$300 per month.
Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.
[Former] Oregon State Representative Kevin Mannix recently urged Nike to cut its production in Indonesia and bring it to his state, telling the shoe manufacturer that “there won’t be any transportation costs; we’re offering you competitive prison labor (here).”
NOW if this article does not make you, as an American Citizen, fighting mad I do not know what will!
To be quite honest when I read the contents of this article it made me sick! I knew that Corporate America would 'stoop low' to 'beef up' their profit margins; however, I had no idea they would stoop this low. Now I understand how the upper echelon can afford to receive such outlandish bonuses. They are receiving they monies [off the backs of the new 21st Century SLAVE LABORERS]. While We The People are starving and cannot find EMPLOYMENT!
WE THE PEOPLE must "Stand UP and Say SOMETHING!"
I am Justin's [I am an American and I am tired of getting SCREWED] momma
How much should the prisoners make an hour? If they get paid minimum wage, should they be payng for their meals, clothing, heat, cable...etc. I'm not saying that they have an easy life....... but most of them are there, because of choices they have made.
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