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This note focuses on two key issues about production in U.S. prisons for sale to customers outside their walls: the relative labor productivity and wages of these prison industries compared with other U.S. industries; and the types of goods and services that these prison industries produce. The results are drawn, in part, from my own survey of state prison industry directors.
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Pryor, F.L. Industries Behind Bars: An Economic Perspective on the Production of Goods and Services by U.S. Prison Industries. Rev Ind Organ 27, 1–16 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-005-4401-3
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