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> What then? If they're not forced to produce something of value to give to you, then how can you ever be made whole again?

To be clear, in the present day, when a prisoner works, how much money do you think they make, and who do you think keeps the value produced?

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The article says the software developer is making a six-figure salary and the prison system withholds 10%.

The prisoner in the article is so unusual someone wrote an article about them and it made headlines on a tech forum.

The parent thread we're discussing is broadly about prisoner work in the US. So we should be considering the mean and median values, not the one guy making 4 orders of magnitude more than everyone else.

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