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HI: Isle Prisoners become key source of (slave) labor

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Isle prisons become key source of labor Private and public groups hit hard by the recession are increasingly hiring less costly inmate workers By Dan Nakaso Feb 14, 2011 The demand for prison work crews as cheap labor for nonprofit groups, schools, churches and state and city agencies has skyrocketed over the past two years in an economy that forced deep cuts, layoffs and a mounting backlog of repair and maintenance projects. Prison officials can't keep up with the requests pouring in for inmates to clean, do heavy lifting and even scour Leeward Coast beaches for medical waste in the runoff from Waimanalo Gulch Landfill last month. Since the economy fell apart in 2008, "there has been a vast increase in requests for the past two years," said Francis X...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).