The Washington State Department of Corrections wants local companies to know that the prisons are open for business. The DOC has contacted local Chambers of Commerce to say that the real way to cut costs is to use workers who have no right or say in what they do...prisoners are the perfect captive workers! While inmate labor had been previously shut down by the State Supreme Court, Washington voters opted to re-open prisons to private companies for business last November. We're wondering: when did liberal Washington decide that slavery needed a new and improved modern counterpart?

Tuesdays are Muppet Days


Works in China.
What? What?!
If the people incarcerated would like the jobs to relieve boredom, earn commissary money or start to work off any restitution that they owe, or to learn new skills, would you still call it "slavery?" What's missing from this story is the inmates' point of view.
Yeah! And maybe those children in China don't like to play outside.