Incarcerated people grow crops, fight wildfires, and manufacture everything from prescription glasses to highway signs — often for pennies an hour. Zachary Crockett takes the next exit, in this special episode of The Economics of Everyday Things.
SOURCES:Laura Appleman • , professor of law at Willamette University. • Christopher Barnes, inmate at the Franklin Correctional Center. Lee Blackman • , general manager at Correction Enterprises. Gene Hawkins • , senior principal engineer at Kittelson and professor emeritus of civil engineering at Texas A&M University. • Renee Roach, state signing and delineation engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. • Brian Scott, ex-inmate, former worker at the Correction Enterprises printing plant. Louis Southall • , warden of Franklin Correctional Center.
RESOURCES: • “ Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 11th Edition • ,” by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (2023). • “ Prisoners in the U.S. Are Part of a Hidden Workforce Linked to Hundreds of Popular Food Brands • ,” by Robin McDowell and Margie Mason ( AP News, • 2024). • “ Ex-Prisoners Face Headwinds as Job Seekers, Even as Openings Abound • ,” by Talmon Joseph Smith ( The New York Times, • 2023). • “ Bloody Lucre: Carceral Labor and Prison Profit • ,” by Laura Appleman ( Wisconsin Law Review, • 2022). • “ The Road to Clarity • ,” by Joshua Yaffa ( The New York Times Magazine, • 2007). Correction Enterprises • .
EXTRAS: • “ Do People Pay Attention to Signs? • ” by No Stupid Questions • (2022). The Economics of Everyday Things.
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