That's a shortfall of 4 million workers in an economy with only 1.5 million currently unemployed for 15 weeks or longer. Part of the answer to this problem is to put prisoners to work. Yet our jails and prisons do little or nothing to provide productive work opportunities.
Opponents claim that it's unfair competition.
Fewer than 5,000 work for capitalist enterprises, while the rest work for socialist prison industry. Socialism does not work, inside or outside prison. This fact is only disputed on college campuses, homes for aging radicals. Prison-made goods may have a reputation for inferior design, workmanship and reliability but that's because it's produced under socialism, which produces junk. So we get indolence, apathy, boredom and no skills or work habits, a formula that fails to steer inmates into productive roles in society.