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Washington Prison Slavery Runs Competitors Out of Business
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 12
PLN has extensively reported that, contrary to the claims of its supporters, prison slave labor has historically cost free world workers their jobs and eliminated businesses who are unable to compete with prison slave wages. Prison slave labor also drives down wages and ill serves prisoners in terms of providing …
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Crime/Demographics,
Victims,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
Location:
Washington.
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