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2023-05-20 00:06:01 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 8D568C09772419993C4A75CB6C248F66858F77F29B697AE927E85D60ECD98001
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About 63,000 inmates work in what is known as prison industries, producing goods for outside customers, often government agencies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-recipe-for-disaster-american-prison-factories-becoming-incubators-for-coronavirus/2020/04/21/071062d2-83f3-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html Federal Prison Industries, (now operating under the trade name UNICOR) employs some 17,000 of these prisoners. None of them make stoves. https://www.unicor.gov/BusinessCatalogs.aspx
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