[PEN-L:4560] Re: The Reserve Army of Prison Labor?

[BILL MITCHELL <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob asked:

>Someone I talked to recently claimed that while we (the U.S.) and China
>both use prison labor, only China uses it for export. Is this true? Does it
>matter?

Last year it came out in OZ that sevearl imported goods lines from the Peoples
Republic were in fact coming out offorced labour (prison) camps. There was a
list published of the brand-names to look out for - i recall Diamond Tools was
one. This led the OZ government to investigate and ban such imports.

there was a wonderful piece of tv reporting sneaking into a few prison camps
which sparked the revelations.

Does it matter? what the difference b/tw the US and CHina or the practice per
se? the latter must be a concern at least.

kind regards
bill
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