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2. Paid prison labour - Wikipedia

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   In the federal prison system, pay rates for these jobs range between US$0.12 to US$0.40 per hour. [19] A smaller 4% of the U.S. prison population work in ‘correctional industries’, producing goods and services which are then sold externally to government agencies, Schools and non-profit organisations. [19]

3. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) grants employers $2,400 for every work-release employed inmate. [11] "Prison in-sourcing" has become an alternative to outsourcing work to countries with lower labor costs. Companies such as Whole Foods, McDonald's, Target, IBM, and others participated in prison in-sourcing during the 1990s and 2000s. [12]

4. Inmates are learning to code in prison. Jobs may be hard to ...

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   Released from prison during 2021 he remembers the fear when his parole officer demanded he get work within two weeks. With a conviction for armed robbery, despite time served, he struggled to land ...

5. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to ...

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   Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two ...

6. Federal Prison Industries - Wikipedia

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   It was created in 1934 as a prison labor program within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Under US federal law, all physically abled inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work, either for UNICOR or at some other prison job. [4] [5] As of 2021, inmates earned between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour. [6]

7. New York State Department of Corrections and Community ...

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   The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...