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jlf1961 -> RE: UK apology for India massacre? (2/21/2013 11:18:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tj444
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
It is not mandatory to work in prison, it is a privilege to be earned, unlike some countries.
not mandatory? a privilege? really? working for 23 cents/hr? That's how you justify it???
"According to CNN Money, the U.S. highly skilled and well-paid “aerospace workforce has shrunk by 40 percent in the past 20 years."
"In 1980, when Ronald Reagan became president, there were 400,000 prisoners in the U.S. Today the number exceeds 2.3 million.
The U.S. imprisons more people per capita than any country in the world. With less than 5 percent of the world population, the U.S. imprisons more than 25 percent of all people imprisoned in the world."
"State prisons that used forced prison labor in plantations, laundries and highway chain gangs increasingly seek to sell prison labor to corporations trolling the globe in search of the cheapest possible labor.
In California, as in many states, prisoners who refuse to work are moved to disciplinary housing and lose canteen privileges as well as “good time” credit, which slices hard time off their sentences.
Systematic abuse, beatings, prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation, and lack of medical care make U.S. prison conditions among the worst in the world. Ironically, working under grueling conditions for pennies an hour is treated as a “perk” for good behavior.
In December, Georgia inmates went on strike and refused to leave their cells at six prisons for more than a week. In one of the largest prison protests in U.S. history, prisoners spoke of being forced to work seven days a week for no pay. Prisoners were beaten if they refused to work."
"Prison labor — with no union protection, overtime pay, vacation days, pensions, benefits, health and safety protection, or Social Security withholding
The prison work is often dangerous, toxic and unprotected. At FCC Victorville, a federal prison located at an old U.S. airbase, prisoners clean, overhaul and reassemble tanks and military vehicles returned from combat and coated in toxic spent ammunition, depleted uranium dust and chemicals."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-and-slave-labor-in-u-s-prisons/25376
Actually, the report you quoted is not exactly true. Victorville does not service tanks or armored vehicles, those are dealt with at either private contractors or DOD facilities in Alabama.
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Rebuild a Few Components or the Entire Vehicle
FCC Victorville specializes in the repair and rebuild of vehicles and vehicle components for fork lifts, HMMWVs, semi-trailer and air conditioning skids.
Fork Lifts: complete rebuild under SLEP Service Life Extension Program. Fork Lifts rebuilt include Yale, Hyster, Case, Drexel,Wiggins, Liftking, Caterpillar, Int. Harvester covering:
diesel, gasoline, propane and electric
booms, tool carriers and cargo container handlers
2WD, 4WD and shipboard; lift capacities from 1,500 to 20,000 pounds
HMMWV: complete tear down and rebuild of all models, including:
Shelter Carrier,Ambulance,Troop Carrier and Truck
Rebuilt Vehicle Components, including:
differentials, brakes, radiators, automatic transmissions, transfer cases, power steering pumps, steering gearboxes
Semi-trailer rebuilding, including: replacement of deck, frame repair, rewiring, and repainting
Air conditioning skids: strip, repair, and repaint
source
Now, under DoD regulations, all military vehicles are decontaminated prior to shipment back to the US. Has something to do with those pesky Hazardous Materials handling regulations.
As for the pay, as I stated, prisons are established for the purpose of punishment. The prisoners do not have to pay for room, food, health care, or anything else that is necessary for reasonable living.
There are some countries that do not pay prisoners to work.
Of course, once more the US is the evil country.
My personal opinion, is that prisoners committed a crime that sent them to prison, and since the discontinuation of the "hard Labor" sentence, this is the next best thing. Many of those "mistreated and exploited" prisoners are rapists, child abusers, child molesters, and violent criminals. Some of those individuals, in my opinion, should be sent to a facility where there are no comforts, sorta like Devil's Island, or executed the day they arrive at the prison.
As for those "white collar" criminals that are sentenced to federal or state prisons, they screwed people over to make money, why should they make money in prison?
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