February 26, 2004
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Outsourcing? Try 'Insourcing'
ONTARIO, Oregon -- Ten states employ inmates in for-profit call centers. Inmates are paid between 12 cents and $5.69 an hour.
Perry Johnson had intended to move to India. But the company chose instead to open inside the Snake River Correctional Institution.
The center's opening followed a year-long effort by the Oregon Department of Corrections to recruit businesses that would otherwise move offshore, and echoes a national trend among state and federal prisons to recruit such companies.
"This is a niche where the prison industry could really help the U.S. economy."
"It's like bringing little islands of the Third World right here to the heartland of America."
From RiottGyrrrl
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