‘This is my way out.’ In Maine, remote work gives prisoners a lifeline. - The Boston Globe
www.bostonglobe.com
Remote work has spread far and wide since the pandemic spurred a work-from-home revolution of sorts, but perhaps no place more unexpectedly than behind prison walls.
  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    This reads to me as a feel-good whitewashing piece so fragile white liberals can point to it and go ‘See? Prison labor isn’t that bad!’

    That would be more of a white conservative thing to say. And that’s only if they’re not complaining that the prisoners are avoiding hard labor.