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Cents an hour to 65 cents an hour. >> what's the motivation not paying them minimum wage? >> well, wage and inmate pay rate is set by regulation. but you have to understand, a minimum wage employee in the community, that's assuming that they're meeting all the financial demands of maintaining a household, family, and all the attendant fiscal responsibilities there. purchasing of groceries, housing costs, transportation costs, healthcare costs. for an inmate who's incarcerated in a correctional facility, those costs are not realized by >> for time spent within the penal system, inmates will acc...

Costs, transportation costs, healthcare costs. for an inmate whose incarcerated in a correctional facility, those costs are not realized by the inmate. >> for time spent within the penal system, inmates will accumulate fees averaging $13,600. their families suffer huge financial losses in lost wages. by the age of 48, a former inmate will have earned $179,000 less than someone who has never been incarcerated. >> every time the prisoners have gone to court seeking to be paid for their labor, seeking to be compensated for their labor, the court's response is, you're slaves, you're slaves of the ...

Healthcare costs. for an inmate whose incarcerated in a correctional facility, those costs are not realized by the inmate. >> for time spent within the penal system, inmates will accumulate fees averaging $13,600. their families suffer huge financial losses in lost wages. by the age of 48, a former inmate will have earned $179,000 less than someone who has never been incarcerated. >> every time the prisoners have gone to court seeking to be paid for their labor, seeking to be compensated for their labor, the court's response is, you're slaves, you're slaves of the state. that's the exact words...

They give us a 64-year-old earning $26,500. their premium would spike 800% from 1700 to 13,600. is that a framework the senate can work with? >> we're working on dealing with that. senator thune from south dakota has been very active in an amendment to try to smooth that out in a better way. we want people to have affordable care so they can get the care they need from a doctor they choose at lower costs. what we've been seeing with obamacare is people can't keep their doctor, can't keep their insurance plan, and when you have people that have been going to a doctor and they find out even unde...

They defended the flight attendants and said they did everything they could, they didn't want to use the tasers because they didn't want to hurt the other passengers who were near them. not sure if that's true or not, but at least nobody was hurt. >> for the record, because i looked. richard marx is still on tour. >> he was performing in hanoi. >> vacationing in vietnam and on his way to l.a. chloe, thank you. it's been more than two weeks since cancer took the life of a jeopardy champion but her winning streak is still ongoing. cindy stoll began taping her appearances on the game show over ...