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Prisoners having jobs isn't the issue here
The issues are due to, among other things, lack of compensation, protections, and choice. These companies are taking advantage of a vulnerable population.
We don't use prison populations for experiments for similar reasons but since businesses don't have ethics boards there's nothing stopping them from exploiting them.