The choice for the prisoners is making $4.50 a day or sitting in their cell doing nothing to improve their life. Don’t act like this isn’t still exploitive to the point of it obviously being a false sense of choice —- especially with the BS that America will lock people up for. If a 14 year old kid in Alabama gets caught with a joint isn’t it convenient that the corporations in the state suddenly have access to a fresh new indentured servant — quite a nice replacement for slavery you guys have worked out for yourselves. If you want to see how civilized countries rehabilitate people see how prisons in Norway are run.