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Friday, March 01, 2013
Inmate labor, subject to abuse, helps rural places
Program that allow local governments use inmate labor in exchange for food, lodging and medical care can be abused, but for small places like Chester
County, South Carolina, it provides a hard-to-replace labor pool, the Charlotte Observerreports.
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