"Michael Allen, the activist who got Whole Foods to stop selling Haystack Mountain's goat cheese, says he understands why prisoners like having those jobs. But he'll keep fighting against prison labor until the workers get paid better."
I don't follow such logic. Inmates get free shelter, free food, free healthcare (well, taxpayers pay for it, but that's another topic), so it's only fair that they make up some of it by providing labor imho. Do such activists honestly propose paying them market rates? How about people living on minimum wage then that get to pay for everything themselves? Also, many people go to prison without any job experience, providing them with some increase their chances of reintegration to society. And just look at the place of that farm (pictured in the article), I myself would accept some wage cut to work in a place with such view.
I don't follow such logic. Inmates get free shelter, free food, free healthcare (well, taxpayers pay for it, but that's another topic), so it's only fair that they make up some of it by providing labor imho. Do such activists honestly propose paying them market rates? How about people living on minimum wage then that get to pay for everything themselves? Also, many people go to prison without any job experience, providing them with some increase their chances of reintegration to society. And just look at the place of that farm (pictured in the article), I myself would accept some wage cut to work in a place with such view.