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    From the page: "In Oregon and California there's a fairly substantial textile industry in the prisons, with exports to Asia. At the very time people were complaining about prison labor in China, California and Oregon are exporting prison-made textiles to China. They even have a line... more

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  • Rated by commerican on Oct 23 2008, 5:49am

    Inmates get paid a fraction of minimum wage to perform menial industrial tasks. That's right, some private company owns a factoryprison operated by horribly underpaid prisonslaves. But the free market makes everything better because chasing profit (and not value) never results in abuse.

  • Rated by harrystottle on Oct 22 2008, 9:33am

    I don't agree with Chomsky's analysis in so far as it relates the anti drugs policy to the manufacturing of consent. I do, however, agree with the financial motives (the prison-industry). I'll go into more detail some other time...

  • Rated by penumbras on Oct 13 2008, 8:39am

    From the page: "In Oregon and California there's a fairly substantial textile industry in the prisons, with exports to Asia. At the very time people were complaining about prison labor in China, California and Oregon are exporting prison-made textiles to China. They even have a line called, 'Prison Blues.' And it goes all the way up to advanced technology like data processing. In the state of Washington, Boeing workers are protesting the export of jobs to China, but they're probably unaware that their jobs are being exported to nearby prisons, where machinists are doing work for Boeing under circumstances that the management is delighted over, for obvious reasons." ##### I had no idea about this. Chomsky blows my mind again... All his stuff about the Contras and Nicaragua during the Reagan years is indispensable reading.