Schooling in the Ownership Society: A non-productive prison-based economy

Schooling in the Ownership Society: A non-productive prison-based economy:

A non-productive prison-based economy

by Mike Klonsky

The hard economic times explain why many residents enthusiastically welcomed the abrupt announcement Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Prisons is buying the mothballed prison for $165 million from Illinois.

In Illinois, when pols talk about "job creation" they probably aren't talking about capital investment in manufacturing. Big corporate investors would rather do that in other countries where labor is cheap and