Laws passed during the era of the New Deal prohibited the use of prison labor with the exception of state institutions. However, lobbying by corporations eventually allowed them to use prison labor by 1979, and by 1995 businesses won exemptions from minimum wage laws which permitted them to exploit prison labor for, according to Elizabeth S. Anderson, "mere pennies an hour." She adds that "many are forced to work in unsafe conditions without protective equipment, because workplace health and safety laws do not apply to prison workers."[39]
A broken clock is right twice a day.
"A stopped clock is right twice a day, but a clock that looses just 1 second a year is right only once every 43,200 years, so it's better to quit than to be a little bit behind."
- Michael David Stevens (Vsauce)
Edit: (V)Sauce: https://youtu.be/f4wzUEQxurM?t=45
I fucking love Vsauce