The Corporate Exploitation of Incarcerated Labour Operations
The public conversation surrounding the modern penal system frequently centres strictly on the massive cost of housing, feeding, and securing the massive incarcerated population. However, a much darker, highly profitable economic reality operates entirely out of the public view and completely free from standard media scrutiny. Across the country, thousands of individuals currently held in state and federal facilities are aggressively used as an incredibly cheap, highly captive labour force by massive private corporate entities. This quiet, highly unethical arrangement allows major commercial brands to produce retail goods and manage external call centres while paying wages that fall drastically below the legal federal minimum. This highly disturbing practice completely blurs the distinct line between necessary institutional rehabilitation and pure, unadulterated corporate exploitation. The harsh physical reality of the prison workplace is completely hidden behind high concrete wa...