I mean, they're not wrong.
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So make it non-productive labour.
Bring back rock breaking. Those rocks ain't gonna break themselves.
The point is, those prisoners should learn the concept of a hard day's work and what they fucked up for someone else.
Then you start to run close to the line of cruel and unusual punishment. And you are very optimistic if you think they won't find a way to monetize that.
The point is obvious and very sound. The problem is it'll never stay that way, its not in human nature.
Nothing unusual about rock breaking. It's literally a trope. Nothing cruel about it either, keeps them fit and gives them tons of vitamin D.
You're grasping at straws here. As long as the people profiting of prisoner work aren't the ones creating prisoners and approving paroles, there's no downside or corruption motive.
And communism works great as long as the bad guys never get power either.
Everything works great if you never let people with nefarious motives near the system.
You'd have to corrupt a fuck ton of people to abuse a for-profit prison system. From cops, to sheriffs, to DAs, to Judges, to Juries, to Parole boards, at both the state and federal level. Probably a few defense attorneys too. That's a lot of hands to grease for a warden to get some juicy "free" labour.
May as well just hire workers at that point, probably cheaper.