http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4185634.html
LISA SANDBERG
"The state may expand [Texas] program that hires convicts at cut-rate wages. The program, in both public and private detention facilities, is part of the federal Prison Industry Enhancement (PIE) initiative. It has long rankled labor leaders, who've complained quietly that it could slowly but surely displace better-paid workers outside prison. That opposition is getting noisier as the state appears ready to add two new PIE operations to the four it now has. One would use prison inmates at the Boyd Unit in Teague in Central Texas to assemble muscle cars from kits. The second would have inmates at the Telford Unit in northeast Texas manufacture uniforms for U.S. postal workers, most of whom are unionized."
