Potato Pickin Prisoners - Idaho
We started in Pueblo last month and it looks like other states are doing the same thing. Hiring out prisoners to pick up the slack.
BOISE, Idaho — Potatoes are worth gold to Idaho's economy, but that's not why an armed guard oversees red T-shirted workers at the SunGlo packing plant deep in tuber country.
Workers from Mexico have become more scarce, so the Sugar City, Idaho, company's managers have a different source of employees: prison. Colorado started a similar program last month.
Such programs highlight that Hispanic workers are in tight supply. Jobs in construction lure them from farms, and the spotlight on illegal immigration has cut the number of laborers willing to come north.
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