Prison Labor and Prison Industries

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 85-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Prison Labor ◽  
Prison Industries

Incentives and the Use of Prison Labor

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Prison Labor ◽  
Prison Industries ◽  
Institu Tions

The current use of inmate manpower by correctional institu tions is a compromise between the inclinations of correctional officials and the preferences of society and thus achieves the ob jectives of neither group. Instead it imposes costs on inmates in the form of poor incentives and irrelevant jobs and creates an oversupply of labor for administrators. Private industry and labor are not truly protected from competition by prison industries, but prohibiting the sale of prison-made goods causes society's overall allocation of resources to be inefficient.

Prison Labor: The Local Effects of Ohio Prison Industries

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Scott ◽  
Frederick W. Derrick
Keyword(s):  
Local Effects ◽  
Prison Labor ◽  
Prison Industries

Invalids

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golfo Alexopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Prison Labor ◽  
Basic Work

This chapter presents the ways in which the Gulag administration dealt with its “inferior workforce.” Severely ill and disabled prisoners were considered as physically inferior (fizicheski nepolnotsennye), the defective labor force (nepolnotsennye rabsily), and the not-work-capable elements (netrudosposobnye elementy). They were unable to do the camp's basic work, which involved heavy physical labor in such sectors as construction, mining, and forestry. The so-called inferior workforce included both prisoners classified as invalids and those assigned to light labor. This segment of the Gulag labor force represented an enormous population of prisoners, and it grew significantly over the Stalin years. Given that a significant portion of the prison labor force was severely ill and disabled, the Gulag leadership sought ways to manage, conceal, and discard this enormous emaciated population.

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