Towns, cities, schools are all exploiting prison labor in Arizona
A corrections bus is parked in Willcox. At 50 cents an hour, governments across Arizona have come to rely on prisoners to carry out basic maintenan...
A corrections bus is parked in Willcox. At 50 cents an hour, governments across Arizona have come to rely on prisoners to carry out basic maintenance of everything from their public golf courses to libraries, schools and civic centers. Economists on both the right and left of the political spectrum don't have a lot of good to say about the practice, according to a 15-month investigation by The Arizona Republic and KJZZ News. But governmental entities maintain that using prison labor allows them to offer more amenities to their populations without having to raise taxes.