[PeteB570]

It's no joke. A couple of the companies were paying $9 an hour with limited benefits.

The company using prison labor was under cutting them and getting the government contracts.

The contracts were not big by the global scale but big enough to keep a few hundred workers employed.

[khelus]

It's no joke. A couple of the companies were paying $9 an hour with limited benefits.

The company using prison labor was under cutting them and getting the government contracts.

The contracts were not big by the global scale but big enough to keep a few hundred workers employed.

My apologies. I'm well aware it's no joke. I've developed a very dark sense of humor as a coping mechanism.

This is the same government that has no problems selling out its own citizens for campaign contributions.