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Selling to the outside world is not a problem PROVIDED the producer of said products can set the asking price for their labor and the (free) market itself dictates what they can get. This is never the case with prison systems, public or private.



Selling is not a problem whatsoever. The laws that regulate prison wages should probably be changed.


Which is great in theory, but the only people interested in influencing such prison laws are the trade groups that represent those who benefit from the status quo.




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