Sen. Cory Booker says prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work
Prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work, sometimes picking crops in triple-digit heat for pennies an hour or nothing at all, Sen. Cory Booker said at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on prison labor Tuesday. America locks up more people than almost any other country in the world — nearly 2 million — and they are disproportionately people of color.
Tom Cotton of Arkansas pushed back, saying prisoners are dangerous people housed in dangerous facilities where “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” He added that prison labor is a way for inmates to give something back to the society they wronged. “And if that means scrubbing toilets, mopping floors or picking up the garbage,' he said, “then so be it.
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