Inmates vs. outsourcing

[NeoConsSuck]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2004-07-06-call-center_x.htm

ONTARIO, Ore. — David Day has a bounce in his step and a glint in his eye unexpected in someone who makes nearly 400 telemarketing calls a day for less than $200 a month. That's because he has a coveted job where few exist: behind bars.

If not for consulting firm Perry Johnson's aversion to moving jobs offshore, Day, who was convicted of assault, and his cellmates wouldn't be working.

About a dozen states — Oregon, Arizona, California and Iowa, among others — have call centers in state and federal prisons, underscoring a push to employ inmates in telemarketing jobs that might otherwise go to low-wage countries such as India and the Philippines. Arizona prisoners make business calls, as do inmates in Oklahoma. A call center for the DMV is run out of an all-female prison in Oregon. Other companies are keeping manufacturing jobs in the USA. More than 150 inmates in a Virginia federal prison build car parts for Delco Remy International. Previously, some of those jobs were overseas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. How nice

I'm glad for the inmates that they have work, but can't help but wonder if it will last. When other countries get wind of this, won't they offer up their prisoners to do the same thing, only for free? It also has me a bit concerned-inmates have my phone number. There was a Law & Order episode about this in the late 90s, where an inmate worked at a call center and used the information he memorized to stalk and kill a woman when he got out of prison.

[the Kelly Gang]

2. cheap labour..not good. It's not helping them for when they get

out..the job will be outscourced

[colonel odis]

3. it's all about cheap labor, whether overseas or behind bars. n/t

bastards.

[stickdog]

4. Because these are the only two POSSIBLE choices.

of course