Letter to Elected Officials at Federal Level
Today, I mailed letters to various elected officials concerning a prison reform concept I’ve been working on for a few years. Here is the letter I sent to President Obama, Alabama’s U.S. Senators, my U.S. Representative, Sen. Jim Webb (D.-Va., who has expressed a desire for reform) and a U.S. Congressman I know from law school: * * * After years of study and publication of a book on the subject, I see a way to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States from foreign countries. We can boost the American economy by using a massive undeveloped human resource, American prison labor, to make products now made exclusively overseas . Under this proposal, rehabilitation prospects and tax revenues would increase, while recidivism and government expenditures would decline. Prisoners would pay more restitution and child support. Everyone in America can win! As you know, our nation has 2.3 million prisoners, ...