HOW TO CREATE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING JOBS
"How to Create American Manufacturing Jobs" has been published and released by the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, a publication of the University of Tennessee Law School.
Citation: Vol. 9 - Issue 2, Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy 161 (Fall 2013), now available on Westlaw.
For those who do not have access to Westlaw, here is a summary:
Right now, 50 states and the federal government (not to mention city and county jails) have total control over every single aspect of prison industries. Total control must give way to more contractual and trade freedom of action. The United States could create many manufacturing jobs if they would free employers, prisoners and Departments of Correction to manufacture goods in prison free of almost all government employment laws and regulations, and subject to contracts between willing prisoners and willing private manufacturers, who must also contract with the prison systems for space and other accommodations. This would not be convict leasing ... and it can be accomplished to avoid unfair competition with free labor and businesses ... everybody can win (except foreign manufacturers). Prisoners want to work, but there are not nearly enough jobs in prison. Their earnings could be put into a trust account to pay restitution to victims and child support and build a nest egg for their release. If incarcerated for life, then a method could found to allow expenditures in prison. Private industry would create better and safer prison work environments than now exist. Prisoners and employers would be free to participate and could end their participation at any time, subject to the contracts they would form. My proposals would shrink the participation of the government, provide a better rehabilitation experience, lessen costs to the taxpayers, create more peace in prison, boost the American economy, compete with overseas manufacturers, and allow private enterprise to succeed where governments have failed miserably. Change can bring American manufacturing jobs back to the USA. Work is good for all concerned, and every prison reformer in history has agreed that prisoners should work at some useful labor, which only a fraction do today. Idleness is the devil's workshop. Government laws and regulations put the quash on prison industries today, in several ways, and this crippling handicap should be repealed ASAP. When workers and employers are empowered to manufacture goods now made exclusively overseas, jobs will be created outside the prison factories through a multiplier effect. Prison industries will buy goods, labor and services from free businesses and labor outside prison. Please read my law review article and get on the bandwagon!
Citation: Vol. 9 - Issue 2, Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy 161 (Fall 2013), now available on Westlaw.
For those who do not have access to Westlaw, here is a summary:
Right now, 50 states and the federal government (not to mention city and county jails) have total control over every single aspect of prison industries. Total control must give way to more contractual and trade freedom of action. The United States could create many manufacturing jobs if they would free employers, prisoners and Departments of Correction to manufacture goods in prison free of almost all government employment laws and regulations, and subject to contracts between willing prisoners and willing private manufacturers, who must also contract with the prison systems for space and other accommodations. This would not be convict leasing ... and it can be accomplished to avoid unfair competition with free labor and businesses ... everybody can win (except foreign manufacturers). Prisoners want to work, but there are not nearly enough jobs in prison. Their earnings could be put into a trust account to pay restitution to victims and child support and build a nest egg for their release. If incarcerated for life, then a method could found to allow expenditures in prison. Private industry would create better and safer prison work environments than now exist. Prisoners and employers would be free to participate and could end their participation at any time, subject to the contracts they would form. My proposals would shrink the participation of the government, provide a better rehabilitation experience, lessen costs to the taxpayers, create more peace in prison, boost the American economy, compete with overseas manufacturers, and allow private enterprise to succeed where governments have failed miserably. Change can bring American manufacturing jobs back to the USA. Work is good for all concerned, and every prison reformer in history has agreed that prisoners should work at some useful labor, which only a fraction do today. Idleness is the devil's workshop. Government laws and regulations put the quash on prison industries today, in several ways, and this crippling handicap should be repealed ASAP. When workers and employers are empowered to manufacture goods now made exclusively overseas, jobs will be created outside the prison factories through a multiplier effect. Prison industries will buy goods, labor and services from free businesses and labor outside prison. Please read my law review article and get on the bandwagon!