Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
I believe Orwell would have disapproved of enslaving prisoners for a number of reasons
But we aren't talking about slave labor here. We're talking about voluntary work on government properties while earning "points" towards early release, and/or special privileges. Basically, the government (whichever entity is running the prison) provides unskilled labor from a pool of prisoners who want to make their lives better, while saving the cost of over-payed union labor to do unskilled jobs. The necessary work on maintaining infrastructure gets done without soaking the taxpayers.