Paying Texas Prisoners Undermines Outside Businesses
by Gary Hunter
Breaking with its longstanding tradition of using prison slave labor, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is paying certain prisoners, on several units, for working in industry programs. The upside is that some prisoners are being compensated for their labor and money is being added to the state’s General Revenue Fund as a result of deductions from their wages. The downside is that at least one Texas bu . . .
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