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Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?

And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.

But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.

Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.

Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.

Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.

So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.

Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?

And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.

But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.

Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.

Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.

Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.

So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.

Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?

And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.

But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.

Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.

Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.

Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.

So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.

Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?

And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.

But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.

Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.

Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.

Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.

So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.

Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?

And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.

But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.

Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.

Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.

Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.

So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.

I just came home from a lovely four year stay at a fed prison. Yes, you can eventually make $.25 an hour, but you have to work up to that.

See federal (BOP) pay scales here.

FPI (UNICOR) is the prison industries. Read: slave labor for government profit. At the facility I was at there was a data processing factory, fixing bad OCR scans by entering Postscript commands.

However, anyone with any computer skills was forbidden from working there, so my job was Captain's Crew...cleaning the sidealks for half hour every day. Nice use of my MCSE, no?

On the other hand:

Smart kids with smart parents will find a way to succeed on their own, especially if they already have their own resources. These are the ones who complain the most, yet really need the least.

Smart kids with mediocre and/or poor (by any definition of the word) need help focusing on school because they'll figure out how to succeed on their own by other means...and end up in prison instead of grad school.

The bottom of the barrel need to be coddled long enough to drill into their thick fucking heads that they're probably going to have a shitty job, but they'll be much happier working for Starbucks than UNICOR.

That's OK... If later cours find their claims were fraudulent, the SCO exectuives will be making chairs here.

How dare they outsource to *foreign* criminals, when they could have outrsourced to US criminals like most credit card companies do ...http://www.unicor.gov/services/

...I think we'll start to see some countries start to use prison labor to compete. That'll definitely take us back to the dark ages.

News for you, kids:

Unicor

It is not a joke. It's very real, and in practice now.

What a wonderful future capitalism is creating for us.

We have a local Prison that works with Unicor to recycle old computers, and then sell what they can as usable computers, we often are able to get some good deals for our company there.

Unicor

Two Words: Prision Labor

Already happening. Unicor, a division of the Federal Prision System, employ's prisioners to do just this. Clients include: Dell, IBM, DOD, IRS, Univ. of MD, etc... In the case of Dell and IBM the stuff is from "take back" recycling programs. I pick up loaded PIII's for $45 before they're scrapped. The prisioners even do DOD security erasing of all hard drives. Really, they're focused on reusing than recycling, but nothing goes to a landfill. They even have inmates in bunny suits smashing CRT's.