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On the cheap: Prison labor generates billions

Report: Inmates risk punishment if they refuse work

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 7/8/22

As many as one million people. 

That would be considered a pretty large labor pool for just about any industry, trade, business or corporation. But the prison population in the United States, which still incarcerates a larger share of its residents than any other country, also works cheap, and even for free.

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