Several people have replied to me that the difference between the inmate and a blue collar worker is the fact the employee can simply get another job. Everyone does realize the type of person I’m talking about correct? I work with these people everyday, there is no indoor comfortable job they could be doing that would earn them nearly as much as they make now welding in full gear in a +95F factory. Even with the mythical $15/hr minimum wage they are far better off working in the factory. If there was a better job don’t you think they would have tried for it, and even then there aren’t that many good paying jobs to go around.
You all are right that the inmate can not leave, but more than likely at some point in their lives they made some series of bad choices that did lead to them being in their current situation. In the end the inmate and worker aren’t that dissimilar, they both can’t leave one for legal reasons and the other financial.
