Do prisoners make anything else useful to the general population outside besides license plates?

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In Texas we use them for farm labor. TDC owns vast farms, and it is one of the few penal systems that actually turns a profit - not every year, but often enough that the taxpayers get to smile about it. There is just something satisfying about driving thru Rosenburg and seeing that dude up on his horse with a rifle, and all those felons planting rice in the mud. While other states talk about prisoners costing 30 grand a bed, ours don't cost us a thing sometime. As a result, we are always looking for more.

...up here in Warshington State, they build furniture for state agencies and many companies are looking to utilize the state sanctioned slave labor camps for their own profit generating schemes. Curiously, some of us are a tad concerned, but we're a bunch of nervous ninnies anyway.

big buisness

http://www.unicor.gov/

Got a min security facility near Madison where they raise pheasants. Last I knew they still make plates up in Waupun too.

Gilly

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Kenny Hill, a luthier, in search for good help, taught prisoners how to build guitars.

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I talked to a guy over the summer with a beautifully restored Jeep Grand Wagoneer from the early 80s. He said the Nevada state prison has a program where they teach the prisoners auto mechanics and restoration, and they restore these cars for a pretty reasonable price (he thought it was around $6-7k).