LETTER: Prisoners want to make the minimum wage?
Your Jan. 18 story on the lawsuit involving the minimum wage for prisoners was the best article I have read in a long time. I had a good laugh. If the prisoners want $15 an hour for the work they perform outside of the prison — which gets them out of confinement — then so be it. But if all us taxpayers have to cover their wages, then maybe the prison system should start charging them for room and board.
Let’s see, when I go out to eat, it’s usually $7.95 for breakfast, $8.95 for lunch and $22.95 for dinner. Oh, then there’s the rent for a studio apartment, $400-500 a month, and that’s cheap.
Maybe if the prison system started to charge each prisoner for room and board our taxes would go down and the prisons would start to make money.