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Excess Prisoner-Made Hand Sanitizer Costing N.Y. Taxpayers Millions to Dispose Of
Loaded on Nov. 30, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2022, page 40
Filed under:
Prison Labor.
Location:
New York.
by David M. Reutter
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were national shortages of personal protective equipment. Hand sanitizer was in great need. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) had a solution: Put prisoners to work making it.
Cuomo turned to the state’s prison industry, Corcraft ...
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