Whole Foods Uses Prison Labor

Organic supermarket chain Whole Foods is coming under fire from libertarians once again for reportedly paying inmates in the Colorado prison system about $ 1.50 an hour to cultivate its fish, milk and gourmet cheese products.

According to Fortune magazine, the Colorado Correctional Industries has created “a burgeoning $65 million business that employs 2,000 convicts at 17 facilities.”

Some reports put the earnings of Colorado inmates working for Whole Foods at a base pay of 60 cents per day.

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You might be surprised at the size of the prison labor system in the US. When I worked for a state environmental agency, we got pollution permit applications all the time for prison industries.

Realistically, the US "labor" market will someday be limited to the following:

• robots
• unlawful immigrants
• prisoners

Anyone else will be too expensive for our corporate overlords.