There are several ethical conflicts relating to the topic prison labour. Some worry about the hard task labour assigned to the prisoners while some disapprove of teaching criminals useful skills and rewarding pay. Importantly, by sparing a second chance for the prisoners, the jobless suffer of unemployment. Businesses that do not consider hiring prison labourers are at great disadvantage compared to those who spend cheap labour costs. Even if prison labour is a form of legalized cheap labour, I disagree with taking advantage of prisoners before every unemployed civilians are able to find a job.
Consumers are likely to lean towards hiring a prisoner labourer instead of spending more money on hiring professionals who acquire the same skills. The decision of whether or not corporations hire prison labourers is definitely an ethical issue; prison labour is not considered to be an injustice act, but the conflict affects maximizing business profit among competing businesses and also affects the fairness of employment. All in all, prison labour should be restricted to a certain level so that civilians can be hired prior to criminals and that other business corporations are not disadvantaged of spending more labour costs.
I agree with the fact that prisoners should be able to do labour whilst in prison but i also agree with your fact about prisoners should be the last option because unemployment in countries are very high, so while jobs could be going to people who need them and who have to support their, jobs are going to prisoners instead so therefore there is still an exponential growth of unemployment.
should this really be viewed as an unethical behaviour if it is legal according to the government and helps the prisoners rehabilitate as human beings?