On September 16, 2012, Fox News.com posted a news article by Elizabeth Prann regarding the Federal Prison Industries intercepting work for their prisoners from the hard working American people who produced military uniforms, only to add more citizens to the unemployment lines.
The government is taking away jobs from law obeying citizen to have the done work in prisons by prisoners who are in there for federal offenses. The government claims even with the 15% cost increase per uniform to be produced in prison who help these cons later in society as reducing the impact of them committing another crime and prepare them for society. The government states it is a law for this situation as they have “first dibs” for work productivity in the prison system. The government is being blinded or does not care if the unemployment lines will increase as well as the rise in government assistance.
I find this article of interest because of the way the federal government is not thinking about their citizens, only their prisoners. It shows they rather not assist in securing employment for the outside world but rather behind prison walls.
