Frederick Wong's Blog

Prison labour is a topic that many people choose to avoid, possibly due to the fact that many find it uncomfortable to discuss. Is it right and fair to pay prison workers a miniscule amount to cut costs? Is it right and fair to deprive law-abiding, honest, hard-working members of society of jobs that they could do just as well? How is prison labour different from controversial outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries such as India or China?

The answer? It’s not.

Sure, prison labour is a cheap and efficient way of saving money, but that doesn’t make it right. It’s not fair to either the prisoner, or the regular worker. The prisoner is being paid next to nothing for work that would pay higher, if it was anyone else doing the work. The regular working sees jobs that they could do vanish because companies want to save money by cheating the prisoners. Prison labour, and outsourcing, is in my opinion, unethical, immoral, and should not be tolerated. More information can be found at the Canadian Business website.

This would be an incredibly generic first blog entry for the sake of following the instructions on Vista. I would make some sarcastic remark, or a joke right now, but I can’t really think of one.