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U.S. Prison labor: http://www.unicor.gov – UNICOR – Federal Prison Industries

The Prison Industrial Complex partners:
1. First partner seeks opportunities in prison construction
2. Second partner supplies the prisons with stun guns, pepper spray, surveillance equipment, and other “disciplinary technology”
a. burgeoning “specialty item” industry sells fencing, handcuffs, drug detectors, protective vests, and other security devices to prisons
3. Third partner finds a state-guaranteed mass of “consumers” for food and other services in the prisoners themselves
4. Fourth partner can be any private industry or state-sponsored program that stands to gain from paying wages that only nominally distinguish captive forced labor from slavery.

At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons.

The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor.

U.S. Prison labor: http://www.unicor.gov – UNICOR – Federal Prison Industries

The Prison Industrial Complex partners:
1. First partner seeks opportunities in prison construction
2. Second partner supplies the prisons with stun guns, pepper spray, surveillance equipment, and other “disciplinary technology”
a. burgeoning “specialty item” industry sells fencing, handcuffs, drug detectors, protective vests, and other security devices to prisons
3. Third partner finds a state-guaranteed mass of “consumers” for food and other services in the prisoners themselves
4. Fourth partner can be any private industry or state-sponsored program that stands to gain from paying wages that only nominally distinguish captive forced labor from slavery.

At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons.

The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor.