Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, now make up a virtual brigade within the reserve army of the unemployed whose ranks have ballooned along with the U.S. incarceration rate. The Corrections Corporation of America and GEO, two prison privatizers, along with a third smaller operator, G4S (formerly Wackenhut), sell inmate labor at subminimum wages to Fortune 500 corporations like Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T, and IBM.
These companies can, in most states, lease factories in prisons or prisoners to work on the outside. All told, nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles, shoes, and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day.
With that being said I do agree that many "parents" expect others like teachers, daycare staff, coaches or worse yet.....the streets to raise their children. They also give their children numerous materialistic things to "babysit" them. I'm not even sure how many parents sit down and have a family meal every night with their children nowadays. My children are grown now and out of the house but when my children were younger and invited friends over for dinner almost all of them were shocked that we sat down together as a family for dinner and actually shared about how our day was!
