Monday, July 20, 2015

Whole Foods Uses Prison Labor

Organic supermarket chain Whole Foods is coming under fire from libertarians once again for reportedly paying inmates in the Colorado prison system about $ 1.50 an hour to cultivate its fish, milk and gourmet cheese products.

According to Fortune magazine, the Colorado Correctional Industries has created “a burgeoning $65 million business that employs 2,000 convicts at 17 facilities.”


Some reports put the earnings of Colorado inmates working for Whole Foods at a base pay of 60 cents per day.


You can read the rest @

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150719/1024814926.html

You might be surprised at the size of the prison labor system in the US. When I worked for a state environmental agency, we got pollution permit applications all the time for prison industries.


Realistically, the US "labor" market will someday be limited to the following:

  • robots
  • unlawful immigrants
  • prisoners

Anyone else will be too expensive for our corporate overlords.

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