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In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs

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245 points voxadam | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 22:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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cl0ckt0wer ◴[22 Sep 25 23:04 UTC] No.45340714[source]▶
On the one hand, prisoners being coerced to work is payment for their crimes. On the other hand, that job would have gone to someone else at market rates. This kind of thing drags down the market rates.

We really need to get rid of the exception in the 13th amendment.

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_qua ◴[22 Sep 25 23:05 UTC] No.45340723[source]▶
The number of prisoners who are capable of this type of work are minuscule and unlikely to affect wages at large.
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faitswulff ◴[22 Sep 25 23:14 UTC] No.45340800[source]▶
Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!
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_qua ◴[22 Sep 25 23:31 UTC] No.45340931[source]▶
It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days. Usually requires a violent offense in the context of significant priors.

If you're interested in doing hard federal time, I would suggest you consider interstate trafficking of distribution quantities of drugs.

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1. jMyles ◴[23 Sep 25 00:53 UTC] No.45341601[source]▶
> It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days.

...there are two million people in prison. Several million more in various stages of the carceral cycle who be be easily subbed in when more labor is required.

Slavery of this variety is alive and well.