> It’s worth noting that this is a voulenteer program and that for every day you work you get 1 day off your sentence. So you can effectively halve your time in prison.
The perverse incentive of increasing prison times to generate more cheap labor.
The perverse incentive of increasing prison times to generate more cheap labor.
But this subsystem is being presented in a skewed way. Yes it’s $1/hour; but you also earn a day of freedom for each day you work.