Mass incarceration has created a 2.5 million person labor pool from which private corporations are using the inmates as slave labor to produce services and products at huge windfall profits for them. This is being done under the guise of reducing recividism, but this bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing. There are no rules for numbers of hours worked, safety, sick pay, vacations, low wages, no one to complain to regarding conditions or treatment Go to link to see Atlanta Star article on corporations using slave labor.. http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/10/12-mainstream-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industr... We must put a stop to this egregious form of slavery.
