Outsourced Workers In Prison Case Study

Dexter Roberts and Pete Engardio in “Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops,” writes about the various struggles that the United States has with production factories overseas. Wal-Mart claims they have rules for the sweatshops to follow but China still violates the labor laws by hiring consultants to give tips to sneak around auditors. The American people enjoy their everyday items at a low price, which Wal-Mart demands to the sweatshops. The sweatshops are struggling to provide these low price items to Wal-Mart and keep their working conditions humane. Roberts and Engardio explain in the article how companies that have overseas production are attempting to provide the managers and employees with skills to make the overtime required more effective.

I think the three most divisive issues in our country is the opinion on immigration, our countries continual divide, and abortion. I think we need to realize that immigration is needed in any strong country, but just needs to be implemented the right way. In no way should we be deporting every illegal citizen, but there needs to be some sort of enforcement. Our politicians need to discuss the actions that need to be taken in order to satisfy those that want to make a new start in our nation,

On July 13th, 2015, President Obama granted clemency to 46 prisoners, facing decades of prison time for low-level non-violent drug offenses. Obama said the nation is spending too much money on incarceration of individuals who received long sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, and so by granting amnesty to these 46 prisoners, he hopes to push the drive towards prison reform.

With the addition of China into the globalization world, the world supply of labor far exceeds the demand. With several billion new workers in the global supply of labor, companies may shop for labor and relocate to wherever it is the cheapest. Laborers in foreign countries are willing do the same work that a high paid employee would do for less. If American corporations are to compete in the new global economy, they will have to

Most people have or will know someone in their lifetime who spent or are spending time in jail or prison. The United States today makes up 5 percent of the world's population, yet holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners. To put that into perspective, it would take the prison population of both China, the largest nation on earth by population, and Russia combined to reach that of ours. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for-profit companies were responsible for approximately 7 percent of state prisoners and 18 percent of federal prisoners in 2015 which are the most recent numbers currently available. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that in 2016, private prisons held nearly three-quarters of federal immigration

Demarco Young filed a lawsuit in August 2015 challenging the state’s use and requirement of penal labor in prison. Young was convicted for domestic abuse and assault in Monroe, Louisiana and was sentenced to eight years in the Louisiana State Prison with parole. Young was in great physical shape, his only health issue was high cholestrol. Young was required to fulfill penal labor in prison and was sent to Microsoft’s storage facility to work. At this facility, Young was instructed to move the heavy computer parts into the storage crates and carry them to the trucks for travel. After one month of performing well he began to feel unnatural back pains, and after another two months he threw his back out while attempting to carry one of the crates. Young was diagnosed with chronic lower back pain and after that event Young was unable to bend over and lift anything heavier than a few books. Young then sued the state of Louisiana saying they violated his 8th amendment which resulted in his new health problems and ruined his future once he’s released from prison.

I think that any worker working in any fill, not only in the criminal justice system should be allowed to influence their own beliefs on job performance. The jail worker‘s believes are not an excuse not to provide a victim of rape with all available medications and sources. What about if these workers working in the hospital are she still will refused medication? We leave in country where the first Amendment gives us right of impeding the free exercise of religion, so that mean you have the right to believe in anything, but do not take my right also to believe in anything. So I believe people working in the social fill like teachers, police officers, politicians, doctors and lawyers cannot have their personal believes to impact their job duty.

America loves to claim they`re the beacon of freedom throughout the world and yet ironically, it has the highest prison population in the world. According the ACLU, America, which only makes up 5% of the world’s populace, holds nearly 25% of the world’s inmates, surpassing Russia. This doesn`t add up when compared to the statistics. If crime rate is at a low, why is the prison population so high? What is contributing to the mass incarceration across the nation? Well, with the evidence presented, it would appear that the private sector is the main contributor to this new American pandemic and more specifically, the privatization of prisons

2.2 million people are imprisoned in the U.S more than any other country in the world. 6.9 million of American adults are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. That is 1 in 35 american adults caught in the prison system and it’s even worse for people of color. One of every 3 african american males born today will go to jail or prison at some point in their lives. The average sentence in the U.S is three years which is three time longer than in Germany.

Presently, there are seven privately run prisons in Florida. These corporations make donations to campaigns to increase the possibility of them winning the contract. For instance, the Geo Group donated 25,000 to Governor Rick Scott’s Inauguration festivities. In addition, Geo Group and Core Civic donated $2 million to various candidates and political parties.

Companies abuse cheap labor who are forced to work in a polluted working condition, but refusing to provide any equipment and protection. Many companies from the U.S. Exploit the cheap labor resource from Asia especially China and Taiwan. China and Taiwan are two countries mostly provide cheap labor for the U.S. Companies. Up to 78 percent of all products in the U.S, are imported from China and Taiwan. Even though, the labor in these countries are treated poorly. According to News Track article, Chinese employees get paid for 90 cents an hours compare to 9.5 dollars minimum as the U.S. Labor(Talk). Moreover, most children and women in China and Taiwan are not encourage to go to school because of financial issue. Up to 58 percent of children from 5 to 17 years old dropped out of school and work as labor for surviving. They get paid the same amount as adults but have to work 2 or 3 more hours a day. Because their families are too poor so they willing to work to earn some money, their families need that extra source of income for surviving task. In the journal article “Knowledge Of And Attitude To Contraception Among Migrant child Workers In Mainland China”, the author has done some researches discovered that over 23 millions child are working as labors from China and Taiwan. They have to work in extreme conditions for long hours, mostly 12 to 16 hours a day with 2 or 3 short breaks take about 5 to 15 minutes and work excessive overtime without a single day off during the week(Ip). Furthermore, they have to work under risky condition. Most industries in China provide a hazardous working condition for labor which later will negatively affect their health and create many illnesses and diseases, but they receive extremely low wage and no provision of health care or insurance. According to an article “China Blast kill 16”, almost 637 thousand workers at a supplier in China were injured after 1 year of working by using poisonous chemical. The employees work in

Inhumane treatment of inmates and poor living conditions seem to be reoccurring issues within the private prison system. Oddly enough the United States government continues to allow the privatizing of prisons when as it stands private companies already owned and/or operate over more than half of the U.S correctional facilities (Mason , 2010). Privatization of prisons was initially expected not only relieve the overcrowding of prisons but also to house inmates for a lesser cost. Yet until this day there is no tangible evidence that private prisons have met these goals. It seems that time and time again private prison companies are costing society much more than they are helping while simultaneously exploiting inmates to make a greater profit. It is evident that the privatization of prisons has created a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of taxpayers and with the enslavement of prisoners.

When you go shopping to Walmart or Apple ask yourself where your product is coming from. China has numerous sweatshop factories assembling USA's products from stores as Apple and Walmart. China’s Sweatshop tends to violate human labor’s rights by forcing overtime and going under the mandatory minimum wage and other violations as long hour without pay, sexual, and physical harassment. China's sweatshop factory tends to be quite popular because is cheap labor, free trade zone, or low fee rates in taxes. The reason store as Apple and Walmart has their product to be assembled in China's factory is to avoid high export fees. Since Walmart and Apple factory's locations was identified and it came public in the media it shocked the world of its employee’s cruel working's condition. Factors in China are located in Guangdong Province Songang or in Shenzhen. For example Foxconn is a factory located in Shenzhen where Apple send their electronic to be assembled and made. In China the majority workers in factories is occupy by women and children. The percentage of women in China's Sweatshops is ninety percents. In China, the majority working in sweatshop are women which are young and not educated; in addition, forcing them to be ignorant of their own legal rights. Young women in China are attached to numeral discrimination and unfair pay. China's sweatshop is popular on violating labor rights, especially against women and underage minor women and men. It is unfortunate

Companies such as Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, and Sony outsource labor and hardware manufacturing to a company called Foxconn Technology Group. Foxconn Technology Group is a multinational business anchored in Shenzhen, China. Some of the typical hardware being manufactured are, motherboards, chipsets, smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The majority of the factories are in China, three in Europe, one in India, and four in Mexico. Currently there are contracts to expand and build a new factory in Brazil. I believe that there are many ethical problems related to this example; first, the general idea of outsourcing mass amounts of labor, and secondly the mistreatment of

Substandard working conditions in the less developed world are usually described as terrible places where employees are subjected to both mental and physical abuse, near impossible quotas, long hours, extremely low wages, and unsafe working conditions compared to western standards. All of this within an uninhabitable environment that corporations knowingly force the world’s impoverished people to submit to. Through pure ignorance, complete disregard, or lack of moral direction, many corporations have taken the concept of