Name a prision

[ed ritti]

I have been floating this idea to my friends and thought it was time to go viral.



I think that we should get companies to sponsor prisons. For paying for all aspects of the prison, they get free labor. Let's say a t-shirt company sponsors graterford prison. They pay for the meals, the guards, etc... in exchange the prisoners must make t-shirts. If they choose not to, then they get put in solitary and get a bill for when they get out. minimum security prisons = 6 hours of work per day, all the way up to max prisons = 12 hours/day. if you choose not to work at the lower levels, then you get bumped up to the next prison:soap:.



this will take a large payment from the US taxpayer. we don't make that stuff in the US anymore, so no jobs lost except for child labor in third world countries. Anything that says made in china is fair game.



We need to stop allowing the people who choose not to follow society rules to carry their fair share.

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[Bill V]

I can see the creative ad slogans now--



"Apple Mac Prison--The only thing about us that locks up"

"The American Kennel Club Prison--Who's your b!&@h now?"



Others??

 

[Kevin Lang]

Let's say a t-shirt company sponsors graterford prison. They pay for the meals, the guards, etc... in exchange the prisoners must make t-shirts

I'd bet paying for room, board, and security would be far more expensive than just having an American machine or an Asiatic sweatshop pump out the shirts.



Robotics and other forms of automated production could already under-cut the Chinese and bring back some American production, but it seems that the large up-front costs for that equipment & intransigent and backward organized labor keep that from happening. The costs for a prison industry would be similar, and similarly opposed.



On the plus side, you wouldn't have to worry so much about additional QA costs--embittered prisoners would be hard pressed to produce crappier products than the Chinese sweatshops are already infamous for. The QA costs might actually decrease in this scenario, though I doubt that would be enough to offset the other costs. (Especially as robots would decrease the QA costs much further anyhow.)



(This brings back horrible memories of the 2008 Death Race movie. That was an abomination :fire: Sorry, tangent :grin



Though I do support the idea that prison needs to be a punishment if it is to serve any purpose. Right now it's a free ride--AC, HDTV, free gym, free food, free healthcare, and the occasional free concert that normal people would have to pay for. I'm tired of paying for deadbeats to live a life of relative luxury. :angry: The only place where prison makes itself out to be a punishment is that county in Arizona, but that sheriff is of dubious character IMO & is more about the publicity as "America's Toughest Cop" than about proper policing of society. :soap:

 

[Collin Lyon]

Trojan Penitentiary -- for those doing "hard" time.

BVD Prison -- for those "brief" stays.

Scentenced to the Denny's Grand "Slammer".

 

[Bud Williams]

How about working on that Moat from California to Texas?

We can put the illegals on that shovel ready project...