Industries Behind Bars: An Economic Perspective on the Production of Goods and Services by U.S. Prison Industries

Frederic Pryor ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2005, vol. 27, issue 1, 16 pages

Abstract: This note focuses on two key issues about production in U.S. prisons for sale to customers outside their walls: the relative labor productivity and wages of these prison industries compared with other U.S. industries; and the types of goods and services that these prison industries produce. The results are drawn, in part, from my own survey of state prison industry directors. Copyright Springer 2005

Keywords: prison industries; production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-005-4401-3

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