Arizona changed how it sells prisoners to companies and raked in millions, but workers were neglected [USA TODAY]
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The vast majority work inside the prison. They make 10 to 35 cents an hour, a wage so low it takes weeks to buy basic hygiene items. But there is also an elite force of about 2,000 prisoners who work for Arizona Correctional Industries, which sells their cheap labor to private companies. It charges companies the minimum wage for workers, but pays prisoners only a fraction of that, pocketing the rest of the money. The Arizona Republic and KJZZ News reviewed more than 11,000 invoices and quotes, hundreds of state contracts, prisoner payrolls, and annual budgets to find how private companies use prison labor in the state. Thousands of receipts show that prisoners working for ACI make products, often without residents knowing it. But Arizona's prisoners weren't always exploited so brazenly by private organizations. The recent boom in prisoners for profit is thanks to Brian Radecki, ACI's chief executive, who realized over a decade ago that the state could make more money by s
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