There are certain stories that just make you completely want to vomit. This is one of them. In recent years, Colorado has passed some of the strictest anti-immigrant laws in the nation. Not surprisingly, migrants fled the state. This caused a not at all unexpected problem: a serious labor shortage.
So the state's Department of Corrections proposed a novel solution: use convicts to pick the melons, onions and peppers that the migrants used to harvest. Prisoners who opt to do this will earn 60 cents a day. This works out to less than $0.08 per hour in a state where the minimum wage is $6.85.
They can't get virtual slave labor from Latin America so they raiding American jails instead.
I guess it's easier than paying legal workers a decent wage.
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