Here in Wisconsin: Welcome to the Chain Gang Edition

Shortly after the war against the treasonous Southerns and there indefensible slave holding economy concluded some the previous slave holder decided that the answer was to use prisoners as quasi-slaves. Thanks to the Fitzgeralds, Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers those happy days are here again:

As the Madison Capital Times reports, “Besides losing their right to negotiate over the percentage of their paycheck that will go toward health care and retirement, unions also lost the ability to claim work as a ‘union-only’ job, opening the door for private workers and evidently even inmates to step in and take their place.” Inmates are not paid for their work, but may receive time off of their sentences.
The law went into effect last week, and Racine County is already using inmates to do landscaping, painting, and another basic maintenance around the county that was previously done by county workers. The union had successfully sued to stop the country from using prison labor for these jobs last year, but with Walker’s new law, they have no recourse. 

Onward into the fog, as it were, as the Right returns America to those thrilling days of yore when the state functioned as the property owners' business manager.