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Prison Labor: Made in the U.S.A.

Prison labor is every US Corporation's dream: cheap labor, no sick leave, no time off, no holidays and employees that can be easily replaced. For human rights activists however, it's a nightmare for the very same reasons - but on the other side of the coin: forced labor, no unions, low pay and no protection for employees. The US has used or currently uses prison labor for anything from holiday coffee for Starbucks, cutting airplane components for Boeing, Game Boys for Nintendo, equipment for the war in Iraq, shrink wrapping mousses for Microsoft, making dentures, down to sewing lingerie for Victoria's Secrets. It's a multi-billion dollar business. Today, FSRN brings you an exclusive documentary, Prison Labor, Made in the U.S.A., with reporter Karen Miller.

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[nowellian]

When they do this is China it is tyranny, when they do it here nobody cares!

Does anyone care?

[Mahoivlich]

The new slavery.

[musicalidea]

Sorry, make that $7.25...two full dollars less per hour than in 1968. There are many reasons for this decline, but the space here does not merit an explanation.

[musicalidea]

US Citizens are not aware that (using 2007 dollars), minimum wage in the US reached its highest real dollar level in 1968 at $9.25. From that point it has fallen to it's current level of $7.75. We need to introduce INFLATION-PEGGED minimum wage and work to establish WORLD-WIDE MINIMUM WAGE standards, the infringement of which by any company - or that company's contractors - operating in the US would result in dissolution.

[jaquaw]

conditioning is slavery as well, but greed makes slaves of us all