• AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    That prevailing wage? Most prison laborers in America make less than $0.50 an hour If they’re even paid at all, and are severely punished if they try to take a sick day.

    I can’t find anything that specifically says that Walmart, Wendy’s, McDonald’s or any of the other ones pays even minimum wage to prison laborers, but these businesses do get a $2,400 tax credit for each work release inmate they employ. The work release inmates are probably paid a real wage because they count as real people but I have trouble believing they would ever pay more than they absolutely had to for an inmate’s labor.

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      11 months ago

      Thats correct when it’s not private industry. So if they make license plates as that’s government owned they can pay them whatever they want.

      I’ll throw an edit in my comment. Thought I made it clear enough.