So now the prison system is using prisoners to fight wildfires…for $1 an hour, and that’s if they’re lucky.  Others have received only 50 cents an hour.  This is just wrong on so many levels.

And, as someone noted in the comments, it fits right in with for-profit schools, for-profit security state, for-profit healthcare, etc., with forcing people to work for slave wages, so the 1% can make even more profits.  Disgusting.

This is what was happening with the mental health system before reform–they were forcing folks to work without pay.  While I do think that having something to do and learning a trade is valuable, it must be fair and paid with decent wages.