Wow, there are some great ideas floating around this thread!

I agree that prisoners should be doing more work to help generate revenue for the government. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if their work ends up competing with private industry. If it ends up putting private companies out of business, people have decided that the goods and services provided by prisoners are somehow superior. The bottom line in my mind is prisoners should be doing something productive and contributing to society rather than simply living out their days in prison cells.

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