Why do American prisoners at great expense to the taxpayers sit around all day, plot gang activities, get depressed and stay bored? Federal and state governments have laws that prohibit or limit prisoners and prison industries from working in private industries, making goods for sale on the open market, transporting goods across state lines, selling to anyone other than the governments, etc . In other words, the governments have a triple monopoly over prison industries. Only a small fraction of our 2.3 million American prisoners work a full day at anything productive. At best, they have government jobs making things for government that the governments do not have to buy from them. There is a program for them to obtain work in private industries, but the requirements are burdensome and have not allowed many offenders to work compared to the number who sit idle. And in a country where the number of workers is s...
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