Company sued government for not adhering to contract.
The moral outrage should be at the people involved in the contract negotiations for the government and the fucker who ended up signing said contract. That group of persons and their entire genepool should be made to fill the vacant spots.
We had something a little similar here. Local government had a contract with an incineration company for trash. Then we started separating our trash more for recycling. And the local government is now BUYING trash from Italy and trucking it here to be incinerated because that is cheaper than the fines in the contract.
To be sure. The lawsuit is fine, if you build capacity for the state and they don’t use it, they still need to pay for the costs of having that capacity. Actually creating a situation where a business must increase incarceration to create a profit is actually the potential for a much darker path than a fucking lawsuit.
Yeah, the privatization is the issue. The state should be directly paying for maintenance of the facilities so there’s no incentive to have more prisoners. Profit shouldn’t be part of the equation at all.
Oh I’m all for radical change up to and including the redistribution of property and the abolishment of common law. I just don’t think that’s happening anytime soon.
Prison reform would be great. Not even changing anything bout how they’re run, just make them government run with oversight. Private prisons are obviously clearly immoral and they’re only getting worse for the sake of profit. Making money in nefarious ways using incarcerated people is so fucking clearly wrong it’s amazing that it even got to this point. They broke the laws of the state/country, they should be imprisoned by the state/country. Not some evil prick that will do anything to have more prisoners and keep current prisoners. That’s so fucking bat shit insane.
Several corporations in the United States have been reported to use prison labor Walmart: Utilizes prison labor for manufacturing products and for supply chain operations.
McDonald’s: Uses prison labor to produce uniforms and other items.
Victoria’s Secret: Has used prison labor for manufacturing lingerie.
AT&T: Employs prison labor for call center operations.
Starbucks: Uses prison labor for packaging products.
Microsoft: Utilizes prison labor for refurbishing and recycling electronic equipment.
Boeing: Engages prison labor for manufacturing parts.
Nordstrom: Uses prison labor for product manufacturing.
Target: Employs prison labor for manufacturing and packaging.
Whole Foods: Uses prison labor for packaging products.
BP: Utilizes prison labor for various operations. Caterpillar: Engages prison labor for manufacturing parts.
Chevron: Uses prison labor for various operations. Eddie Bauer: Employs prison labor for manufacturing products.
Kmart: Uses prison labor for manufacturing and packaging.
And the US military. I was studying the supply manual (not for fun, a large portion of our promotions are based on a test we take once a year), and saw there was a hierarchy for ordering. Most of our stuff is from Skilcraft (“Made with pride by people who are blind”) and thought that was our preferred source. Nope! Our first source we have to try to order from is Unicor. So I looked up Unicor, and it’s prison labor.
So our first focus is buying cheap products from slave labor lining the pockets of truly awful business people. The secondary choice is one that helps blind people. Way to show priorities, right?
I’m sure that you’re right, but I would love to have a list of references for this. Where do you find credible information on the labor sources of these companies?
The line goes up. The demarcation must ascend. It is the will of god the market, in which all things are made possible profitable. youtu.be/ao-Sahfy7Hg
I waited for a train for the first in years the other day and every third connex was a dark gray Amazon box with the blue smile. It felt surreal and utterly dystopian cyberpunk