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Erecting barriers to in-prison employment

I've already lamented the bipartisan effort to scale back the too-small number of "prison industries" programs employing Texas convicts while they're incarcerated, so rather than separately analyze SB 1169 by state Sen. Robert Nichols, which is up today in the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, I'll just point readers to the item I wrote when the companion bill was heard in the House: "False claim of unfair competition could limit in-prison work programs." Personally, I'd prefer the Legislature expand such programs instead of scale them back.UPDATE: Sen. Nichols said in laying out the committee substitute that the altered bill will grandfather existing prison industry programs and that restrictions would only apply to new participants...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).