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Kevin: I work for a county and manage the landfills, we sometimes utilize prison work to help clean up the landfills, it is through the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, we pay around $250 for 6 hours of work utilizing 10 inmates and a fire sergeant that watches over the work.

In your opinion are we utilizing modern day slave labor?

It is probably, at most, a grey area, but it just seems to me that access to really cheap labor will just encourage our government to always ensure that that cheap labor force is available.

It seems like a contradiction that people in our country want to get rid of illegal immigrants because they are willing to work for almost nothing doing jobs that most people would never want to do, but if we paid inmate crews the same amount for working in the back of every restaurant, and picking our fruit/vegetables/nuts, etc. for the same pay as the undocumented immigrant farmers then everyone would be bitching about them getting paid too much...

Not really sure where I'm going with this, but mostly I'm frustrated that the place I live isn't willing to pay the real cost of burying all of their trash, which means we have to utilize inmate crews to subsidize their incredible amounts of waste.

U/krishnaandavolu any updates on the Las Vegas Paiute tribes grow/sell operation? I live in an area with a lot Paiute tribes and was curious how something similar would work for these tribes.