Re: Profiting from prison labour
According to Amy Lee, she believes that it is unethical to give prisoners the right to work while others who are not in prison are left unemployed. I completely agree with this view point for many reasons.
First of all, it has a negative impact on the economy because if the citizens who are not in prison do not have a job, they are considered unemployed and that means companies are not using their available resources usefully.
Secondly, I believe that it is not fair to give prisoners the opportunity to work as they are supposed to be spending their time for the mistakes they have made. Working is not a way of punishing them. Not only that, but the motives of companies is not right as they are looking for cheap labour. Cheap labour as a whole is not right because it prohibits educated people to be able to get a job because what they were going to do is being done by prisoners.
As a whole, like Amy Lee said, there is no limit and companies go for what they think is best for their company, even if they have to use cheap labour as a means of gaining profit and not having to spend so much money on factors of production.
Article link: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/95731
Original blogger: https://blogs.ubc.ca/amylee/2012/09/13/business-ethics-profiting-from-prison-labour/