President Obama is personally funding the prisoners' pay out of his own pocket, and the knuckledraggers watching foxnews will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

The local Federal prison here has contracts with private business and the inmates work and get paid.

Ain't that special...

Which makes the story very misleading in two different ways. One it doesn't highlight the fact that prisoners are working for pennies on the dollar. Two, it obviously doesn't bother to explain the fact that the program is a partnership with a corporation which is why the prisoner's pay isn't withheld.

It is an example of shitty journalism at it's best.

I'd like to add, the prison usually receives a ton of money in addition to the measly pay those prisoners receive. So basically the prison also gets paid for the work that the prisoners do(more corporate socialism).
I'm sure plenty of those prisoners have families that could really use the support.

but it is a different program which may still have funding.

and the prisoners don't receive anything FROM THE PEOPLE MAKING DOUGH OFF THEIR LABOR?

GGGgggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

In the end the taxpayers are screwed the most, as usual!

I like your sig line btw

hope you learn from us and we learn from you and that we have times when we'll laugh together!

Or would that spoil the outrage?

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By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo News
October 10, 2013 6:30 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/unlike-prison-workers--federal-inmates-still-getting-paid-during-government-shutdown-223059095.html

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The prisoners are paid for their work from a separate fund. And since they make considerably smaller wages than a worker outside the prison walls, the Department of Justice says they have enough cash to cover the lapse of funding while parts of the federal government remain closed. The Federal Prison Industries (FPI) program receives about $2.7 million in government funding each year .

FPI employees are paid a minimum of 23 cents per hour and can legally be paid up to $1.15 an hour for their work. All able-bodied federal prisoners are required by law to work for FPI or in some other prison labor capacity.

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And, of interest, - pay can be MUCH better in State prisons.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

By Vicky Pelaez
Global Research, January 31, 2013

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Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call “highly skilled positions.” At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an hour and work eight hours a day, and sometimes overtime. They can send home $200-$300 per month.


Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.
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It is well known that the USA has more prisoners per capita than any other country in the World - some 2.3 million at present.

Slavery was abolished - sort of - they don't get them from abroad anymore - they enslave their own!

In more ways than one . . .

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prisoners cannot vote and therefore have absolutely no say in what goes on outside their cages. It seems disingenuous to blame them for their measly "paychecks", which seems to be the point of this article and the OP.

however, I would imagine it to be frustrating for a guard to have to work for nothing while those who broke the law get paid; apples and oranges.

their shitty pay has turned half of them into smugglers anyway, so now the rest will become corrupt. Another win for the GOP in their quest to spread chaos and misery.

Idle prisoners are not a good idea plus they are cheap labor. This is a bunch of hooey about nothing.

But to try to place outrage on the inmates getting their paltry salaries is ridiculous and not at all comparable.

If you are incensed about the workers paychecks being delayed simply state that. Why try to feign outrage at the inmates?

I had a choice of jobs when I went into the system. I did farm work. I did custodial work. I did construction work - I actually built the facility I was housed in; right down to the room where I lived.

My first choice was always an industrial job in Federal Prison Industries. I could make enough money to finance my own modest commissary needs, and send money out to my family each month.

Over the years I was in the joint, I was able to save up a couple of thousand dollars. That money was the nest-egg I used to start over again when I was finally released.

I worked my way up to the $1.15 an hour wage scale; I even received a couple of five cent longevity raises.

There were plenty of inmates doing the lazy, do-as-little-work-as-possible jobs. I went the other way. When I got out, I wanted to be on a regular workaday schedule.

So I was able to help support my family by sending out the meager amount I could earn each month, and I was able to facilitate my transition back into the world.

This all happened years ago. I haven't re-entered the system. I'm one of the success stories who never went back.

Part of the reason was because I was able to contribute when I was down, and because I kept up my regular work-day schedule.


Who has a problem with this?