How Prison Labor Hurts Everyone | Ex-Con Reviews John Oliver

[@GrognardPiper]

My dad managed a boiler room at a prison. He had an inmate that worked for him. The guy was good at the job. When he was released, my dad wanted them to hire him. The warden agreed with my dad too. He was a good worker. But the law said an ex convict couldn’t be hired. The irony is BS. He was good enough as a prisoner to work there, but once he was free, he wasn’t.

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

its crazy. the laws that are implemented to hire ex cons needs to be changed

[@GrognardPiper]

@@LarryLawtonJewelThief my dad has since retired and that very former inmate is now a friend of our family. He’s a great guy that made one huge mistake. He’s paid his time though.

[@GrognardPiper]

@@JShawnPaul even the warden agreed that those laws were stupid. He wanted to hire the guy properly as well.

[@bch5513]

@@JShawnPaul especially when the comments get deleted

[@GrognardPiper]

@@JShawnPaul I was agreeing with you.

[@finncarty1151]

Hi Larry love the vids, your literally the biggest proof why the quote “I don’t believe in bad people, I believe in bad choices” should be respected by more people and help people realise not to judge people on what they’ve done, but what they aim to do in the future. Thanks Larry 🇮🇪💚

[@mrorangecookie1430]

true words

[@Yamchasballs]

I love that quote. Larry is a good example of it.

[@JayJay-vp8jw]

I owned a Commercial HVAC company in California for 7 years . I hired 2 Guys who were sentenced to life in prison when they were 17. They wound up serving 25 years . I gave them both jobs when they got out. They turned out to be my most skilled hard working guys. My company’s success was because of them. They now both are incredibly successful. 1 guy just started his own company and the other runs my friends company. I consider them both family and so thankful for them. People need a second chance. I have never worked with anyone works as hard as them.

[@JShawnPaul]

I loved working while I was in jail. Whether I was in the kitchen being a beast unloading the dishwasher or if I was folding fitted sheets in the laundry area. I liked working because it kept me busy and the days went by quick. So I slept good at night because my body was tired. We did not get paid but we got time off of our sentence for working. Every four days of work was 24 hours so that was one day off

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

that is one of the only upsides...keeping busy and staying active

[@sativarosegold3604]

I did not enjoy the carpal tunnel from laundry and being constantly snapped at and belittled

[@JShawnPaul]

@@sativarosegold3604 I was actually joking about folding fitted sheets, I think I literally just punched them up in a ball lol we did the laundry for the psych unit down the street. So there was a lot of bedding and huge barrels of pants and T-shirts to fold. But they actually had a machine that would fold the sheets. But two guys had to start the sheet into the machine. Oh plus for Thanksgiving and Christmas we got catered food brought in. This was at the Milwaukee County house of corrections in Franklin Wisconsin

[@thetruthhurts131]

Exactly, I would rather be working then sitting in the cell or unit all day. Pay or not

[@samhowl1152]

@@sativarosegold3604 don't go to jail

[@Kaiyats]

I feel like there should be a prison that’s designed to take inmates who have been in the system for a long time who are institutionalised who are about to get out and the purpose of the prison would be to give them more freedom and responsibility just small things like getting them to go shop for themselves, working, having a key to their own door etc and teaching them about new technology such as with a debit card or something so that they are more prepared for when they’re released

[@chicofromph33nix64]

Doing that for inmates will help them out and will give them a better chance to be successful... if they succeed, they won't come back, and they can't have that.. they need to keep those beds full because prison is a business... there is a reason they make it hard to get a decent job, they need them to struggle and come back

[@alwaysonyourtail2563]

they kind of do. its a system where for the last three months in jail the convict will be escorted by police to and from a job. so he will have somthing when he gets out. seen it blew my mind that this guy i worked with for a month was going home to a cell......no wonder he loved over time

[@TaxationIsTheft439]

@@chicofromph33nix64 also the reason why we have man made law it’s unjust

[@merovech7]

Isn't that just a halfway house?

[@Kaiyats]

@@merovech7 yes but halfway houses are full of druggies, this facility would be a privilege to go to because the rooms would be like apartments Norway style but there would be zero tolerance to violence or drugs they would risk going back to a normal prison which would be comparable to hell

[@joeweidemann5305]

The Texas State prison also had a rodeo show for prisoners to “perform” at. They stopped when an inmate actually escaped in a horse trailer. Pretty interesting story if you ever care to look it up.

[@ashleee1127]

BODYCON is a guy in New York who opened a fitness center after being released from prison, and he only hires ex cons. Apparently it’s become quite a successful business and NONE of his employees have been let go OR reoffended. Amazing. Recreation and rehabilitation and a little bit of grace and anyone can have a come back story. You’re an inspiration Larry!

[@storytimewithunclebill1998]

I was a Grade 1 head cook in federal prison and top pay is 40 cent an hour. You can qualify for a 50 percent bonus and the max pay I could receive for one month is 120 dollars. I worked 7 days a week for 2 years. No reason to take days off. Food was in the kitchen I was there. Knew a dude that worked at Unicor for 10 years and was making 500 to 800 dollars a month. He made really good money. He was able to send money home because he couldnt spend it. Cool that the inmates help on the fires. That bull launched that dude. I was locked up 5 years in the feds and only received 275 dollars all together and never had a visit. Shame if you wont give a female things she needs. Messed up. The group she was speaking to looked like that could give a damn what she was saying. The system needs an overhaul and based more on help than locking up longer. Always interesting to watch. Great video

[@youngimperialistmkii]

"They are releasing some of the good ones ". That's some serious slaver speak right there.

[@thedarkringmaster1514]

Hey Larry before I watched you I was a stuck up ungrateful kid and never appreciated anything in my life and always expected life to work for me and with a mix of a harsh wake up call from the military and watching your videos everyday you make me so grateful for my life and you help me get through my rough days at work thanks for your content and thanks for the change you’ve helped me achieve

[@danieljohnsonthejetpackman1456]

I think prisoners should be allowed to earn a normal wage. They may not have to get all that money on their account, but come on, how is paying them slave wages become good? Imagine how all that saved up money could help someone out once they get out, apart from the work experience.

[@joelleheverin4795]

Agreed. The money can help inmates families during this time that they are mostly likely struggling financially. Great video. My first time listening,and you bet I subscribed and rang.

[@dannyg6699]

Hey Larry! Love the videos! Keep ‘em coming! As a fellow ex-prisoner myself I really support your cause. Just celebrated 10 years free on March 22nd!

[@BenMalleck]

Hey Larry, how’s your day going? Keep up the great work with the podcast and everything. I listen to every episode. - Ben

[@duncansmith5854]

Hi, I'm from the UK and I've been watching your videos for a while. First, I have to say that as a human being, going from a criminal background to not only turning yourself around but dedicating yourself to helping people and working so hard to improve a necessary but broken system that is causing so much suffering is truly inspiring, even to those of us whose troubles don't include prison time. You, Sir, are amazing. If you're ever over here it would be my Honour to meet you. Seriously, drinks and a roast dinner on me. I That's the first thing. Second, before seeing this and your other videos, I had no idea American prisons were so medieval! I know our prisons can be improved but (please correct me if I'm wrong) you're describing an environment where the way people are treated is at times more like a dungeon from the 13th century! This is genuinely shocking and I hope that the fact that people like myself from countries other than the US are becoming aware of the situation can give you a little more leverage where it's needed. In the meantime, I'm sharing your channel with everyone I know.

[@Daniel-rg5kb]

I have a question. Are prisons in the UK similar to US prisons, in the sense of abuse and danger level? On a side note, my dad has been getting locked up since he was 13 years old, he's 42 now and just got out 7 months ago from a 2 year stint. He told me that the prison he went to in CA, had him sign a waiver stating who he wanted his body sent to if he were killed, and whoevers name was written would also be charged $25 for the bullet it took to kill him (assuming the guards were the ones who killed him)

[@Vercingetorix525]

@@Daniel-rg5kb wtf... I had to read that a couple of times before I was even able to comprehend what you were saying. How F'd up is the world we're living in buddy? I hope we can find a way to do better in the future

[@duncansmith5854]

@@Daniel-rg5kb Hi Daniel, to answer your question, no. While abuse in UK prisons does happen it is the exception rather than the rule and it's nowhere near on the same level as in the US. I think the biggest difference is that guards in our prisons are armed with non-lethal weapons ONLY. Tasers, batons, even if there's a riot the worst you'll see are guns with rubber bullets. Lethal weapons are not considered necessary here and I think this has a huge difference in the guards' mentality; Guards in US prisons have the power of life and death over the prisoners, in the UK they don't. In one of his videos, Larry described prisoners being killed due to witheld medical aid or deliberate poor conditions. If a death happens in prison here for any resaon other than old age or natural causes there is a police investigation and the guards would find themselves under a very large and uncomfortable microscope. Please forgive the long-winded answer. I hope this helps.

[@1984Phalanx]

When it comes to cold blooded murderers I don't care what happens to them. But there are so many others who genuinely have good in them and deserve a chance to turn their life around. It's amazing to me that the people running these prisons are more cruel and corrupt than some of the inmates.

[@MelkorTolkien]

Until they raise the burden of proof to some kind of certainty rather than doubt, we shouldn't treat any prisoner this way, unless they flat out plead guilty or the evidence was substantial (aka, more than eyewitness testimony).

[@vissitorsteve]

@@MelkorTolkien I totally agree with what you said, except for all the guilty pleas that are later found to have been coerced, or in instances where inept attorneys convinced someone a truly innocent person accused of a crime to accept a guilty plea in return for some kind of reduced sentence.

[@TheWellDweller]

I'm a county jail guard, those inmate welfare funds aren't something I've seen where I work. The only basketballs on the rec yard we have were bought by guards, because honestly I've noticed an increase in good behavior on days where we can get inmates onto the yard for rec.

[@kingreeseiii4105]

Read Gangster Redemption thru Audible and man it was so good. Love the way you dive into detail with your personal life and I relate to a certain degree

[@bob31481]

My uncle is in prison for life, for double murder, and I always thought it was ridiculous the amount of money my dad and grandma would spend just to talk to him until a few years later. He had nobody going in, and presumably nobody when he was on work release. Not having those calls probably would've resulted in him doing worse crimes. ALL prisoners deserve a set amount of free calls and a couple free video calls for holidays (X-mas, V-day, B-day, etc). It's ridiculous that something as humane as a CALL is being monetized.

[@Mr-Chill]

I swear I could listen to you talk for hours about anything. You're fair and honest and you bring some really good and interesting points to the table. Thanks for another great video Larry!

[@donutpredator4945]

A friend of mine who builds houses for a living half of the people he hires is work release guys and when they get released hires them on fully and currently has 5 crew and 60 percent of the guys came from the work release program and never once had a problem with any of them

[@azzaboi1989]

Perfect video to watch and sit and chill with a beer. Cheers Mr Lawton

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

make sure its a mic ultra though!

[@geoffbaird4906]

Hey man so glad I found your videos, not only do you talk in a way to inform you also teach and make it easy to comprehend.

[@joeymurphy9974]

Hi Larry I’m studying criminal Justice and I just was learning about prison labor yesterday in class. Great video

[@nordicsage7614]

my uncle was a fireman when he was in prison in Georgia and received all of his certifications, when he got out he got denied the ability to become an actual fireman. that was part of the reason among past habits of him going back to prison and eventually checking out. its unfair how the system screws over inmates from fining things to help them stay out of prison by using skills they may have acquired while inside.

[@MartinMosman]

I used to work for a uniform company (Galls) and we would take all of the uniforms, we couldn’t complete in house, to the women’s facility in Shakopee, MN for all the hemming, alterations, patches, etc. I never knew what the company actually paid MINNCOR to do all that work, but I can’t really imagine it was a lot and I know the inmates didn’t benefit from any of it. They tried to make it seem like “the work was benefit enough”

[@internal.inferno2088]

You can't avoid charges by visiting full stop! You still have to pay for travel to visit. God forbid they are in a different state or county (I'm in the UK) I had to travel to the next town over to visit. Mad respect to the host hough for shedding light on this. I don't remember any other talk show host doing a segment on this.

[@andrewnelson2801]

Hi Larry! My wife is worried I am preparing for life on the inside because I learn so much from watching your videos!

[@johnbailey8103]

I love John Oliver, especially because he's a great source of not just news, but also obscure topics like this, it's really cool to see you reviewing one of his LWT episodes

[@chriskline9468]

Amen. I've been out of prison for about twenty years and, though I finally found a place that not only hired me but also pays me pretty well, it's still hard on the other aspects like finding something besides an apartment for my family or getting a vehicle that hasn't already been owned.

[@mdebella10]

Larry, I don’t know anyone that’s been to prison, but I think you do a great job informing me about the lives and experiences of so many Americans. I think your videos are truly informative and honest. You don’t seem fluff your experience at all. I respect that a lot. Keep making these videos, I think it’s so important for people like me to learn about the experiences of people in prison. Rock on dude.

[@MyOwnGanja]

Very interesting and unique content, you are just an endless source of ideas, information and motivation. Keep it up! Liked, commented, shared. Been subscribed many many years now :)

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

much love!!! yes, the ideas always flow. i have a great team behind me, including my son! if it wasnt for them, i wouldnt be here today

[@MyOwnGanja]

@@LarryLawtonJewelThief Always, family first! Now you are a free man, and you can enjoy your familys company the rest of your life :) (and ofc good friends too)

[@alexrompen805]

Awesome video. I have nothing against prison work, its how it works that pisses me off. They should be paying them comparable wages to the outside jobs, charge them for rent/food/utilities etc and use it to teach them to budget on a real job instead of relying on crime..BUT... what they actual do is run basically slave labor camps

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

agreed 100%

[@brianbuckman6908]

Not really, criminals stole from society and they pay a small fraction of it back by working during their sentence

[@alexrompen805]

@@brianbuckman6908 Theres a faulty logic to that. 99.999% of them are going to get released. So, we can either train them and give them skills to be a good contributing member of society, OR we can use them as slave labor and toss them back out again in the vague hopes maybe they accidently learned a life skill while locked up. Which one would YOU want living next to you? Or next to your children, or parents or siblings?

[@brianbuckman6908]

@@alexrompen805 firstly, a decent chunk of them will not be released. Secondly, I’m not advocating for enslaving them for money, I’m arguing that people who cause damage to society should have to pay those damages back to the ones affected

[@456MrPeople]

They’re already paying their debt to society by being in prison. Anything on top of that is extra. Also only 1/7 prisoners are serving life or virtual life sentences so the vast majority of them are going to be released back into society.

[@shanekeenan1209]

Hey Larry, love your content it’s extremely entertaining and informative, keep up the great work 👍🇮🇪

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

Shane! thank you for the support my friend. Thats what im here for!!

[@jacobkubacki2719]

I was incarcerated for 18 months & the majority of the time I was at a fenced in minimum in the state of Wisconsin. I started on the Kitchen serving chow for .19 cents an hour. I eventually got placed on the prison farm shoveling cow shit for .50 cents an hour & eventually made my way up to milking cows for $1.60 per hour. Now BSI(Badger State Industries) produces all the milk, butter & ice cream for all state institutions in Wisconsin & Minnesota. They’re a multi million dollar industry getting slave labor costs by having all inmates on the farm. It was nice getting out every day(night farm went in from 6-midnightish, 6 days per week but they had a day farm shift that went 13 hours a day as well. I’ve been almost stampeded by spooked cows to getting kicked in the ribs by an angry cow that was tangled in the milk pumps. It was very dangerous for a bunch of people that never worked with animals to that extent. Like I said, it was nice getting out but I had VA benefits coming in every month as well so I didn’t need to work but if you didn’t the guards would set you up to get busted and shipped to a medium facility.

[@LDHulll]

In a prison in Iowa (I think it was our camp). I was told by one guy that they worked as ranchers and farm hands. Said he got paid well and if there are a lot of good perks to it. I told him that's a prison I'd like to work in. There's mutual respect between the staff and the inmates and there was little to no violence.

[@jonadams7732]

great video larry your content is always worth watching

[@JordanJasman]

I saw the title and instantly got interested because Prison Labor is Slave Labor when you really look into it

[@lifeasnicole2592]

I can’t relate when it comes to jail or prison, but I was in the mental hospital for a week in 2017 or 2018 and that one week can break a person if they didn’t get to see or call their family. Some people are in there longer than a week. We had phone calls daily sometimes every 2 days and you could only call family. You can’t call a bf or gf only your family and you could only see your family. We had visitation once maybe twice a week. Some people could not see their family cuz their family couldn’t afford to drive to see them. Some families didn’t have a car and their kids in the hospital suffered. I’m not sure if we had to pay for calls or not my parents never told me about that, but if we did then insurance probably paid for it since insurance pays for most of the mental hospital expenses. So, I completely sympathize with inmates needing visitation and phone calls. Visitation and phone calls are the only thing prisoners and patients have and it is crucial for everyone to have them.

[@fawtha]

Im from MS and lived about 40 minutes from Angola and I’ve been to the rodeo numerous times. They are so entertaining, much more than just a rodeo though. it’s worth it. Much respect to the inmates that participate

[@dartjones1281]

As Dad has always said "Sex,money,and drugs rule the world and there's nothin anyone can ever do about it".

[@lizzthatvegan1207]

Thanks for another great video! I'd love to hear you talk about the covid impact on inmates. Can you do an interview with someone about their experience in jail or prison during covid? I'm especially interested in the way safety protocols were developed, how they were put into practice (if at all), and the psychological impact of being further isolated.

[@tigernotwoods914]

You work in the joint. Get paid pennies on the dollar. Then you buy the marked up commissary items from the prison so they’re profiting off prisoners twice and that’s not even counting when corporations get to contract prison labor wtf is that?

[@williambrittian3726]

In Georgia they use inmates at the public safety training center. The big prisons have inmate firefighters. One prison a all female fire station. Some departments here will hire inmates when they are released.

[@KingPhoebus28]

Great video as always uncle Larry. Hope you are doing good brother!!!

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

Doing as great as i could be. Hope you're having an amazing thursday !

[@KingPhoebus28]

@@LarryLawtonJewelThief you know I am, Now Uncle Larry will you be doing the weekly news with Larry Lawton becuase I loved that series!

[@DwightMS1]

Larry, that saying, "Three can keep a secret if two are dead" is a quote of Abraham Lincoln.

[@SonyStudioPro]

I love it when Larry drops a video 39min ago with a lenght of 30min, and the first reactions come in 34min ago saying the vid was amazing and they saw the whole vid 🤔🤦🏾‍♂️… what does not compute there 🤨?

[@erics362]

The 13th Ammendment should be replaced with one that doesn't permit a slavery exception for prisoners; no slavery or involuntary servitude for any reason, period.

[@105C09]

I was on four internet radio shows from'04 to '10 exposing this, working as a prison RN and investigating companies profiting from prison labor such as McDonald's, IBM, KFC and others. VP Heels Up Harris, when D.A. in CA kept prisoners in beyond their sentences since they were working for companies and lining her pockets.

[@docjc1842]

LARRY THANK YOU!!! You are a great example of how men can use male privledge to help women!!! This is a health issue we all came from a woman! Bleeding is natural and shouldn't be shamed or punished or profited from! Imagine the abuse or "favors" that get exploited just to have sanitary products. Thank you Larry. As a psychologist i worked in lots of corrections and the system is so broken. Thank you again and damn you look good doing this.

[@REALTEXAN_Hispanic]

I think they should allow ex-convicts to be firefighters. if they have been working like that in prison.

[@fallout0624]

My opinion Prison Labor should only be used for actual rehabilitation if it's associated with classes teaching people a career (like trade schools teaching them to be carpenters for example)

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

Worked in prison industries at tyger river in entire SC. Shaw hardwoods. I lost an arm, and I sued, and they made my life an absolute living hell for the next 4 years for it. But now I'm sitting in my brand new house, but the torment they subjected me to for suing them was so traumatic, I am fkd up for life.

[@munstrumridcully]

The _"Prison Industrial Complex",_ as I call it, has become almost entirely about using inmates as cash cows-- in any and every way the indifferent to outright malevolent lawmakers across the US will let them. From all the stuff brought up in this vid-- ludicrously low wages, to outright forced labor aka _slavery,_ to food not fit for human consumption, to all the jacked up prices for commissary items and phone calls etc... But besides the outright slavery-- the biggest issue needing swift action, imo, is the the privately owned, for profit prisons. These private prisons actually have inmate population quotas-- often requiring that facilities never drop below 95% capacity... This encourages the states involved in these systems to incarcerate people in great numbers-- regardless of whether or not these "offenders" actually belong in prison.

[@iceman5882]

I was never in prison but was in very similar circumstance.Believe me if there is a work you would wanna do it.Boredom is the worst part.

[@IFJ38137]

Hey Larry, I’m a huge fan I love your videos. You do an amazing job educating people about the truth of prison

[@masonlynch1793]

I live in a town on the border of Massachusetts and Connecticut. When you go over the state line into Enfield CT, there is a prison with a bunch of grassland around it. I’ve seen prisoners mowing along the edges of the road with 48 inch walk behinds. They must’ve had to work up to it quite a bit.

[@felicianelson2779]

Tuesday, Thursday & Sunday. @Larry, What time? I'll definitely be here this Sunday. Have a great weekend! Continue to stay Safe 🙏❤️

[@medionlvr]

in Cheshire Ct we were paid .50 then .75 and finally $1.00 a day. i worked in the print shop. we made temp tags, registration stickers and all sort of state forms including traffic ticket pads. we were paid every two weeks. the basic need (toothpaste, soap etc) was provide for.

[@DGregster]

Great video Larry, I couldn't hear the last few things you said though cause your outro music came in too loud. I recommend having it fade in slowly so that way you can finish your sentence

[@105C09]

I and Jeff Bennett covered this on his radio show way back in '04 and updated the information as more was made available through 2010. Get this, in Texas, they have inmates deconstruct mainboards to get the gold. They are exposed to toxi chemical fumes with little in the way of ventilation and eye safety. Companies that use prison labor include McDonald's, KFC, IBM as well as companies selling lawn and garden tractors. The list is huge.

[@GSXK4]

The Shawshank Redemption is real.

[@secondhandlyon2603]

When I was in I ran a cattle farm for my last 4 years. We raised registered black Angus cattle. I got a dollar a day. It really was better for local farmers because they could introduce better genetics into their own herd at a discount. I loved the job after sitting behind the fence for years.

[@SamsonTimoti]

Yeah I’m calling bs on what they’re saying for pay. I did state time in Virginia and the pay ranged from $0.27 lowest ( kitchen job ) mid $0.35 ( laundry job ) highest $0.45 ( special assignment ). So yeah just adding my two cents there no pun intended lol.

[@elizabethjay583]

I'm grateful for prison labor because that's how I could afford eyeglasses for me and my daughter. Walmart's $28 complete pair of glasses comes from prison inmates. And yes I strongly agree they should be paid way more, but hopefully it makes them feel good to know that a single mom with 2 kids and her daughter are grateful for our glasses they made for us. And I'm a single mom because their dad is in prison... So their helping another inmate's family... Hopefully they can relate.

[@teeing9355]

Nobody should earn a profit off of prisons and prison labor, doing so encourages Human Rights Abuses. As a country, we should be ashamed, America needs to be better than this.

[@Ghostly_One1]

One thing you might want to consider with the outro music, if you're still gonna talk while its playing, is start it at low volume and then gradually raise it. If you go full volume right away then it can be a bit hard to hear you over it.

[@Iamhassentme]

I think work could be good for inmates as long as they get properly paid and it helps them get ready for life on the outside.

[@LarryLawtonJewelThief]

agreed. a work release program that sets an inmate up with a job upon release

[@lulilee4152]

honestly this is heartbreaking. i’ve been tearing up for over half this video man

[@EastyyBlogspot]

I see prison labor..I think Shawshank Redemption, though do not know if that type of thing would happen (for people who did not see it Warden would use prisoners for labour on jobs outside of the prison which could undercut everyone else). Anyway i feel the way to do labor is if you can teach prisoners practical useful skills that could help them get a job outside.

[@chrissotrill]

Hey Larry I have a really interesting Question about prison that I’ve been dying to know the answer too . What happens to young guys who go to prison with serious back problems?? I’ve been hoping one day you’d make a video talking about this , if you can’t workout and you can’t fight because your back is killing you . You can’t prove your self to a Gang you might be in or wanna be in . Then what can you do ? I have musculoskeletal problems myself and I cannot lift weights or workout at all for that matter . Do they provide a good chiropractor in prison. ? Please make a video talking about this . I’m a huge fan of your channel !!! Thanks 🙏.

[@everythingaboutestonia]

Does “i dont believe in bad people, i believe in bad choices” apply on private prison owners?

[@CathodeRayNipplez]

The will to live is extraordinarily powerful and can be pushed to extreme limits. Taking a good hard look at myself I don't have that and would most likely check out as many do.

[@utube012341]

Larry, you are a national treasure . I caught a 36 month case , only did 9 months but I still saw some shit . One thing they did in Wisconsin was serve rancid meat and the grossest chicken you ever saw . I just traded my meat for anything else . That must have been a state prison scam

[@tinamathews3379]

If I ever go to prison, and am sent to a private prison; when I get out, I am going to sue that prison for back wages. If I am working for a corporation, I am entitled to a fair wage for services rendered.

[@lawschoolpro]

The whole thing reeks of Shawshank redemption on a large scale. Man this sickens me.

[@justinbryan595]

This video needs to go viral.

[@89WinstonSmith]

I have to admit I had a tit job when I was in. They had just started a prison wide "information channel" that they broadcast on all the TV's. My job was to make animations for this channel, little informational cartoons. Basically I went in whenever I wanted, fucked around on the computer everyday, then spent the last day rushing to get the thing done. Got paid $7 a day, which anyone that's been in knows is pretty damn good.

[@shadowbanned3716]

This situation reminds me of the walking dead episodes where beth is trapped in the hospital by the cops

[@1sweetree]

13:00 If someone had done the same work you did on the outside, they would've been getting paid too. Just a result of occupation. Great video, thanks Larry!

[@georgiishmakov9588]

Ex-cons need to be treated the same as ex-presidents: ex. Once you're out, you're out. Their rights and their freedom need to be restored in full. If they are too dangerous to restore their rights in full, sentence them to life, or to death, but not to second rate citizenship.

[@rogerpenske2411]

I also agree that if someone is trained for a position, as was said about firefighters, so of course they should be allowed to enter that field. That is what they have been trained for, and it’s pretty good money as well

[@landgin3781]

I remember Jay from “let’s live life” mentioning when he got out he didn’t know how to use a new vending machine

[@flournoymason8961]

It seems to me like working in prison even without money is a good thing. You get out of your cell for the work day and when you get released you are used to having a job instead of just sitting around.

[@jimamizzi1]

What a fantastic but sad video Larry, had no idea this was going on in the US. Aussie fan

[@PotterPlaysGaming]

There is literally no excuse for the phone thing. they can have more phones, in this day and age, they're cheap as hell. As well as paying $6 a day.. thats more than most phone bills, that's sick.

[@josephJ124]

Hats off too you taking time to help your Celly read and watch him graduate with his GED.. That is some good shit

[@vinde2117]

prison labor is not a bad thing, but the way it is done is the important thing. here in norway you can get a degree and you do get payed for it

[@KajaKamisama]

Yes. Also here (Czechia) some prisoners can get out for work, walk ALONE. Only a few, though. It must be good to change the environment. Minus the strip searches.

[@tonec3210]

Looking forward to the podcast tomorrow Uncle Larry just started listening been watching all your videos. Btw prison pasta is the shit, made some recently and will keep making it

[@sativarosegold3604]

I'm on a diet and been eating prison pasta for weeks, starting to get old 😆

[@frogmanpipes9561]

In order to find the average pay scales. You wouldn't divide the numbers up in relationship to the month or days. You would find all of the lowest and highest hourly rates and divide it by the number of examples.

[@thewalkingcrow8946]

10+ years ago in Arkansas it was about $10 just to connect a phone call. When I explained that to my girl that if she didn't have 15 minutes to talk to me to just not answer. But we only got paid $9 a year, but you had to be in there during Christmas and had to have been in there for most of the year and you also had to have no money on your account or you didn't get any. As for visitation we could only have 3 on the list and you had to see all at the same time. You gave up supper to see them and only had an hour sometimes and hour and a half. But there was food to buy at visitation, which went into a welfare fund. But they rarely did anything with the money. They bought some books once, some rubberbands for the gym, some movies for the weekend. If you had more than a certain amount of money on your account they charged you a fee. It was possible to hit that high amount on work release because they got paid actual wages on work release and often went to those same jobs when they got out. But it was really rare to be one of those guys. You had to have long time and be an A class which required several years of good behavior to get. I was put on regional maintenance which was considered a good job because you got to go out. But it was heavy manual labor, and the jobs had to be for non-profits like churches, cities, and schools. The main benefit was you got real world food which makes you fat as fuck, but the tradeoff was getting strip searched a few times a day. As I mentioned, we didn't get paid for the work. It was work or have your time tick down VERY slowly. A C2 ticks down at like 2 days for 3, a D class it's 1 for 1 and that's what you get if you refuse to work. You also get no visitation. No phone. No commissary. They take all your belongings away when you go into the hole and you don't get them back. You'll spend a good bit of time in isolation and when they let you out you'll be in the D class barracks which is full of shitasses that just want to fight and steal and be criminals playing cowboys and soldiers all the fucking time.

[@dfgndfghdfghdfgh]

The fact that legal slavery is endorsed by the US gov is madness

[@tylerkovalsky7692]

Long time fan here. Great video as always. Keep up the good work Larry!

[@KailyKail]

You could have an extremely profitable for-profit prison that still treats inmates humanely. Pay them $4-5/hour and have them make things consumers want. Pay them $12-15/hour and have them do professional jobs. Data entry, insurance claim processing, or other jobs that aren’t customer facing. Deduct incarceration costs after considering state and federal subsidies, provide essentials like proper food, sanitary items, etc, and require inmates to save 90% of the rest in an IRA or savings account. When they get out, give them access to the account and they’ll be much better off than they would have otherwise.

[@christopherkimberlin3745]

Hey Larry, have you ever done a video on CCA/private prisons ? Please consider doing a video on CCA. Thanks

[@ninjasam98caldwell43]

Hi larry 👋 can you please do a video about London gangsters or the kray twins , I think it would be cool to see differences and your opinion on them.

[@hutch3562]

Here in the south they still use prisoners to clean ditches along the roads, highways, etc. My dad used to talk about the old chain gangs when he was a kid. Guys actually chained together in long lines with sling blades working along the roads. Great visual to scare kids into behaving.

[@Justin________________]

Correct me if I’m wrong… but on average a to imprison somebody for a year is 40k. Shouldn’t they have to work for that ?

[@feenix1033]

Didn't Larry appear on John Oliver or The Daily Show before? I can't find the video i'm sure it happened

[@conjohntv714]

Great video Larry! Huge fan! Gangster redemption has me on the edge of my seat every night!

[@MorningStarChrist]

The only reason I can see that prison guy is mad about losing prisoner labor is; The sudden release of inmates, unexpectedly, reduces the amount of people the prison promised to provide for labor. Over the time period of a predetermined contract.