With all due respect, which I have no idea what amount that is, this is completely absurd. Most trade work is just not being outsourced because it has to be done locally and that they have a vocational program in a jail somewhere doesn’t mean anything.
optissima@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s fine if you don’t, but you’ll find yourself surprised more than a few times in the next few years with that attitude. The point I was trying to make with the article is they state that there’s a 43% lower odds someone doesn’t return to prison, which means that there’s still high chance that when they return to prison, and now they are now enslaved skilled labor. Do you think that the lost investment of reincarcerated workers by the companies will go unnoticed and unpursued? With automation of the industry, the required skill floor is dropping, meaning it will be even easier to train new labor. I hope I don’t need to explain that slave labor exists through the current prison system.
No, you don’t need hoardes for a payoff, just enough to push a profit.
Am I making sense now?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sorry but the idea that they’re going to use ICE captives to replace your plumber remains ridiculous. I see very few people using such a service if it were even offered, and certainly not enough people would use it to make getting into the trades not worth it.
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Inmates aren’t used for individual homeowners. They’re used in corporate farms, public beautification projects, or fire fighting. Settings where it’s easier to manage groups in one place. Not have them roam around in place where they have unrestricted access to potential victims.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a large amount of trade work to be done for individual homeowners. That’s my point. Of course you can have slaves clean the factory boilers, and in a cruel and unjust enough society it’s practically guaranteed that you will do so. But the idea of replacing plumbers with ICE prisoners is ridiculous. It’s much more likely that the plumbers would become ICE prisoners.