WTF!? Prison labor is brilliant.
Illegals come here and are a financial burden, and they come because there is opportunity.
Prisoners are a financial and social burden, put them to good use.
Prisoners working means the following:
- Less opportunity for illegals, so fewer illegals
- Legit and taxable business practices
- Prisoners become productive
- Companies could pay for prisoners' work (for certain work, to be regulated heavily) and that payment could go to decrease the cost of incarceration
- Prisoners would be doing something, therefore less likely to be involved with 'on campus' violence (proven with recreational studies in prisons)
Do you see a down side? I don't