Use Prison labor to replace offshored chinese production.

Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

#1 We bring back critical industrial production (would suck to go to war and not have factories to produce war needs)

#3 Prisons will be self funding instead of taxpayer funded since they will now become a profit center.
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So you want to make sure that you produce weapons and missiles in the USA because you ARE GOING to WAR? So you define this critical?
How lame is that?

Prisons are supposed to be "correction facilities" and not profit centers!!! Make better use of them by cleansing and facilitation of the process! Not by making them produce profit!!! Most people who end there have problems!

I completely disagree with your idea, but i certainly think that prisons and prisoners should be more self-sustainable
 
Quote from shortie:

American prisoners are freaking lazy. iPhone would cost $2K if made in US prisons.
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Agree! they would take more pleasure in breaking stuff than making any. More so when they know that their wages are 50 cents an hour but product sells for $29.95 in the retail. They will burn the crib down before any product leaves the prison factory.

:D :cool: :p
 
Quote from JJacksET4:

That's pretty funny = "living in beautiful building" - almost all prisons I have seen (on TV and driving by - not inperson!) are very boxy, ugly, hard steel, etc. Maybe Madoff's wasn't. I do agree with the sentiment that U.S. prisoners are often treated way too well.

I also feel if they were given some incentive to work harder such as less time, there would be some prisoners willing to do this work, etc. On the other hand, should we really allow someone to be a murderer for example, then work hard making IPads and get off in a lot less time?

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Think of it, you'd have to kill someone to get a job in this economy. Then to motivate you to work hard at your job, your sentence is waived.

Talk about moral hazard....
 
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There's all kinds of things prisoners could be told to do:

-Be random organ donors
-Robo-sign mortgages
-Test pharmaceuticals
-Daytrade stocks
-Collect unpaid taxes
 
Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

So instead of an iPad made in china via Foxconn, it would be made in the US in a prison factory.

This is a win in many ways.

#1 We bring back critical industrial production (would suck to go to war and not have factories to produce war needs)

#2 The high tech aspects of modern factories (Automation computers robots etc..) will bring back those high white collar salaries to the US

#3 Prisons will be self funding instead of taxpayer funded since they will now become a profit center.

#4 We no longer borrow and export dollars to china.

So instead of having Prisoners playing pool,watching TV and having anal sex they would be building products like TV sets,computers,ipads,turbines etc..
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Nice, so basically provide incentives for more arrests and imprisonments. Just like the shady incentives that corrupt the courts in counties that already have privatized prisons. I'm sure the business community, which silently supports illegal immigration due to the benefits it provides, won't jump at another opportunity to further lower labor costs.

Only on ET will you find people openly fetishizing Chinese-style fascism.
 
Only problem I see... can you trust prisoners to do a job?

I wouldn't buy anything made by prisoners because I wouldn't trust it to last? I'd rather buy something from workers who get paid to build quality. Devices from people who need the money and can't afford to get fired.
 
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