The Prison State of America
"Prisons employ and exploit the ideal worker. Prisoners do not receive
benefits or pensions. They are not paid overtime. They are forbidden to
organize and strike. They must show up on time. They are not paid for
sick days or granted vacations. They cannot formally complain about
working conditions or safety hazards. If they are disobedient, or
attempt to protest their pitiful wages, they lose their jobs and can be
sent to isolation cells. The roughly 1 million prisoners who work for
corporations and government industries in the American prison system are
models for what the corporate state expects us all to become. And
corporations have no intention of permitting prison reforms that would
reduce the size of their bonded workforce. In fact, they are seeking to
replicate these conditions throughout the society."
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