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In the prison labor debate we rarely hear from inmates. >> what do you say when people say they shouldn't have labor programs in prisons? >> i don't agree with that. i could be out there just walking the yard, be out there just angry. this is a buffer. this gives me an incentive to want to do the right thing, to do something different. the pay can be a lot better. >> i'm pretty sure someone is making money off of it. >> the prison industrial complex could not exist without inmates. the entire prison industry would collapse without large numbers of people to incarcerate. to keep this $265 billi...

And hour. in many they don't pay anything at all. in texas, georgia, arkansas, alabama, they are not paid anything at all. in some places they're required to work under threat of disciplinary action. if they say, no, i'm not going to work, they can write you up for that, send you to solitary for that. >> that's like slavery. to work for free and put you in solitary if you don't work or write you up for not working, why is that not slavery? >> in the prison labor debate we rarely hear from inmates. >> what do you say when people say they shouldn't have labor programs in prisons? >> i don't agre...

Anything at all. in some places they're required to work under threat of disciplinary action. if they say, no, i'm not going to work, they can write you up for that, send you to solitary for that. >> that's like slavery. to work for free and put you in solitary if you don't work or write you up for not working, why is that not slavery? in the prison labor debate we rarely hear from inmates. >> what do you say when people say they shouldn't have labor programs in prisons? >> i don't agree with that. i could be out there just walking the yard, be out there just angry. this is a buffer. this give...