I often wonder why we have prison industries at all. They take jobs away from non criminal workers.
As for the strike itself, the justice system is a travesty and needs overhaul from front to back. It will go nowhere until someone with influence is incarcerated and is treated like just another arrestee.
I'm guessing you have had no personal interaction with the criminal element in this country, nor have you visited one of our penal institutions.
So, that pretty much makes you distinctly unqualified to pass judgement, don't you think?
You'd guess wrong but don't feel bad; you're usually wrong when you're not guessing also.
But just as an example of what I'm talking about...a guy is arrested for criminal trespassing because he's homeless. Now that he has a misdemeanor on his record, he can no longer go to many shelters. So he's homeless and not able to go to the Salvation Army for example. They let him out on a PR bond and he's wandering the streets until his court date comes about. He doesn't show up (hard to find a calendar or a tree to hang it on) and is now hit with an FTA on top of the original charge when he's arrested again. This time the judge sentences him to time in the clink so now the original criminal trespass has blossomed into jail time at taxpayers expense.
Just one of several examples of how out of whack the system is.