Five Exploitative Jobs all Female Prison Inmates Want
- Librarian
A few lucky prisoners get to work surrounded by old book mustiness and rub it in the faces of the cafeteria workers down the hall, all while still getting exploited! Twelve cents an hour to organize the stacks? Yes, please!
2. Teach and tutor other inmates
As an instructor, when have you ever thought you weren’t underpaid and taken for granted? Now you can feel the same way when you’re in prison. And it can go on your CV!
3. Laundry duty
A perfect job if you’re missing your sticky, snot-nosed kids. Washing the clothes of inmates is sure to make you feel like you’re back home — getting exploited for your labor as a parent or partner just like usual. At twenty cents an hour, it would basically be slave labor, but you’re a convicted felon so you don’t have rights.
4. Sew military uniforms
When you were down on your luck and desperate just as you reached adulthood, you might have thought of joining the military. But maybe the forty grand didn’t seem worth the hazing, abuse, and possibility of death that came with signing up. In prison, you can contribute to the military and not get paid forty thousand dollars a year for sewing uniforms…and still face hazing, abuse, and the possibility of death!
5. Work for a call center
We all know how much every woman loves talking on the phone. At this job, inmates can take calls for a variety of companies. Being yelled at by a bunch of angry customers is a great break from being yelled at by the guards. And it’s an excellent way to make sixty times less than the national minimum wage!
#girlprenuer and dust off the résumés you’re hiding under your mattress. Don’t forget to list those special skills like surviving on an unlivable wage and thriving in the prison industrial complex! Then hand them in to the prison guard nearest to you.
