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I’m my state, the vast majority of the prison labor goes towards prison operations, like growing food, maintenance, sanitation, etc. Only a little of it supports commercial operations.
It’s an important part of maintaining discipline in prisons because otherwise they’ll just sit around bored all day.
Its not that I'm against the idea, its that its incredibly quick for that little to become a bigger focus.
The Angola prison over by where I grew up is very self sustaining, while also being the largest max security prison in America, and operates entirely on the same beliefs. It also eventually kept "expanding" its operations into arts and crafts and its famous Rodeo until eventually prisoners were being forced into making trinkets to sell and ride bulls for pure profit to the prison.
That prison is why I say such a thing. Because I got to see the degeneration first hand, being related to a bunch of felons and all.