User:Sleepwalker1999/Prison farm

prison farm: Work camp that prisoners of the state solely work on the farms watched by armed correctional officers with small living spaces and bad conditions.

prison farms also do cattle

it is legal in the United States by the thirteenth amendment

form of physical labor as punishment for the crimes that they had committed outside of prison

many states have laws that say that every able bodied inmate must work

prisoners are not subject to the fair wage act

article gao is saying that the prison system is trying to use the prison farms as busy work for the inmates so that there are no threats

Arizona farm section

the state of Arizona paid 458,000 26 cents an hour for in-prisoned people

if it was minimum wage it would be 7.5 million dollars worth of wage

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Tied with modern day slavery- need stat or

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/06/prison-labor-pads-corporate-profits-taxpayers-expense

https://www.gao.gov/assets/ggd-93-98.pdf

Other Work Programs: The prisons can be leased for other work around the prison not just for agriculture.

Some of the includes an inmate orderly, plumber, or painter.

Proponents of maintaining prison labor claim that giving prisoners jobs helps them earn some cash to fund their prison stay and also help them find legitimate work upon their release.

The United States has a history of using the prison labor system to help the agricultural industry. The use of prison labor helps meet any gaps they have in the production of agriculture.