What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret?


	What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret?

arifsali

7-22-2008 8:21 PM

452 views

tags:

prison, corporations

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

7-22-2008 9:28 PM

BobbyRutan

Mixed feelings about this. Inmates need activities, training, and work experience. However, if the corporate motivation is strictly below minimum wage labor then obviously it sucks.

9-16-2008 5:49 PM

Aqualung1000

Somehow I don't believe that they will charge much below comparable rates. Just goes into a different pocket, but I agree with you also BobbyRutan

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Related Clips

More clips from arifsali

Michael Jackson and Sufi Poetry

Majority of Americans Approve Complete Ban...

NASA's HiRise camera reveals breathtaking ...

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from July 22, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cbd5144c-4e49-412e-ac57-a0cb74762a61/7E1478EB-12FD-4203-8EF9-1DD4489B34CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-lingerie-and-bullwhip.html" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-lingerie-and-bullwhip.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.motherjones.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-lingerie-and-bullwhip.html"><P class="storydek">
<SPAN class="section">NEWS:</SPAN> From Starbucks to Microsoft: a sampling of what US inmates make, and for whom
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-lingerie-and-bullwhip.html"><P>Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor. Here's a sampling of what they make, and for whom.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-lingerie-and-bullwhip.html"><P><FONT>Eating in:</FONT> Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens). <B>Starbucks</B> subcontractor <B>Signature Packaging Solutions</B> has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as <B>Nintendo</B> Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup "entirely consistent with our mission statement."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E1478EB-12FD-4203-8EF9-1DD4489B34CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from arifsali

Today's Top Clips