The Problem Of Prison Labor In Prison

How much knowledge of the prison labor do you have? Many people do not have too much knowledge about prison labor because usually people do not have the opportunity to see the situation in the prison. Therefore, no one dissatisfied of the handling of prisoners. However, the United States prison have problem of modern-day slavery. That problem is prisoners are working like a slave in prison. Why is this problem? Prisoners do labor in prison, but prisoners are not everybody committed a felony. Some people have been imprisoned in false charges and very light sin, and prisoner will have a new debt because they are forced to work at low wages and they have expenses in prison, plus racism in the prison also has become a problem. Therefore, prison

Kim Gilmore wrote, “The prison sentences are often steeper for minorities, who are more likely to be convicted of their crimes that are non minorities” (161). When prisoners revolt to a prison officer, they receive corporal punishment. Moreover, the prisoners do not have human rights in the prison because they cannot choose works. Also, when the prisoners refused to forced labor, they receive violence or corporal punishment. Donna Batten wrote, “Prisoners cannot refuse to work or choose the work they will do. Prison officials can punish prisoners for refusing to do work assigned to them.” (105) Prison officer can do corporal punishment to prisoners because prisoners do not have human rights in prison. Therefore, prison labor hurts prisoner. When prisoners do hard labor with hurt by violence, they get sometime death from overwork. In second, the prisoners are forced to work at low wages, but they pay for their living expenses from their low earnings. Sara Flounders wrote, “Prisoners earning 23 cents an hour in U.S. federal prisons are manufacturing high-tech electronic components for Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles, launchers for TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank missiles, and other guided missile systems.” Their hourly rate is between $0.12 and $0.4 because courts concluding that prisoners do not have to be paid at

Prison labor is hard because prisoners received violence and low wage. However, these are worthy of punishment precisely because severe. Therefore, prisoners should do hard labor because that labor will benefit for us. Simon McCormac wrote, “Currently, we are forced to work in the blazing sun for eight hours. We run out of water several times a day. We ran out of sunscreen several times a week. They don 't check medical backgrounds or ages before they pull women for these jobs. Many of us cannot do it! If we stop working and sit on the bus or even just take an unauthorized break, we get a major ticket which takes away our 'good time '”. In this way, prison labor is suitable for punishment because that is hard to