In Florida, inmates from a maximum security prison provide cheap labor for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a private non-profit corporation.  Congress created the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification in 1979 (PIE) with the purpose of providing employment for inmates.  However the program was abused for companies to gain huge profits as prisoners are “expect[ed] to be paid between 10 cents and 50 cents an hour” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/06/prison-labor-pads-corporate-profits-taxpayers-expense).  Through the program, PRIDE in 2011 has grown to become one of the largest printing corporations in the state because of how cheap labor has significantly impacted local smaller printers.  This event may have influenced other states to seek replacing public sector workers with prison labor, with California alone having sixty prison industries and another 100 scattered across the country.  Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, mentions that “it’s bad enough that our companies have to compete with exploited and forced labor in China,” “they shouldn’t have to compete against prison labor here at home” (http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor).  Through tough times in the American economy, certain corporations such as PRIDE in Florida have found ways to make vast profits through utilizing the cheap and massive prison labor force.