Outsourcing to Prisons!

This is the worse possible way to do business. Just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it ethical. This only gives more incentive to increase the police state. A company under the name UNICOR is a big player in the prison outsourcing game. Their market is call centers. Over 1100 jobs have been taken off the market and been put in a prison…this has 1984 written all over it. Each prisoner that works get around 94 cents an hour. This is slave labor.
“But Jay, they’re criminals, why do you care?” I care because I see this being misused. I can see laws becoming more and more outrageous, and can see the private prison system scratching the backs of even more judges and sheriffs, so they can get more cheap labor. If we get mad about companies sending jobs overseas, we should all be enraged over this.
I want to know what you all think on this. Please leave your opinion either here or on my Facebook wall, I am really interested in everyone’s opinion.