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Social failures trickle down to our prisons
By seattletimes.com- Jerry Large
Published: 12/18/2014

Reading a series of Seattle Times articles about “the empty promises of prison labor” made me think how hard it is to get something good from a system that is, at its core, all about failure on multiple levels — of individuals, of families, of government.

Reporters Michael J. Berens and Mike Baker investigated a prison-labor program that has cost Washington taxpayers millions, hurt small businesses, while helping larger ones, but produced little of what it promised. Their three part-series ran this week.

Washington’s prison system is among the nation’s more progressive systems, but it is still a prison system. I saw a TED talk by Dan Pacholke, the deputy secretary of operations for the state Department of Corrections, and he summed it up pretty well.

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