Convicted murder Joseph Kerekes recently made a payment of $26.60 towards his court-mandated restitution. Now that he's been transfered to SCI Huntingdon to spend the rest of his life, what kind of 'job' will he have to pay off the rest?
Chances are... Joe will be working in one of these three 'professions' for a long time [source]:
Garment Plant - Produces shirts, trousers, coveralls, uniform jackets, U.S. Flags, boxer shorts, sheets and pillowcases, and scrub suits.
Print & Sticker Plant - Produces business and medical forms, brochures, booklets, envelopes, business cards, identification stickers, calendars, PennDot registration stickers, and labels.
Soap & Detergent Plant - Produces bar soap, anti-bacterial soap, liquid and powdered cleaners and detergents, janitorial products, disinfectant cleaners, dilution control systems, and laundry products.
Based upon the inmate hourly wage of $0.19 - $0.42 per hour (though they can get production bonuses of up to $0.70 per hour in addition to the hourly wage)... it looks like it's gonna be a while before Joe pays his remaining debt of $3645.21 in full.
Chances are... Joe will be working in one of these three 'professions' for a long time [source]:
Garment Plant - Produces shirts, trousers, coveralls, uniform jackets, U.S. Flags, boxer shorts, sheets and pillowcases, and scrub suits.
Print & Sticker Plant - Produces business and medical forms, brochures, booklets, envelopes, business cards, identification stickers, calendars, PennDot registration stickers, and labels.
Soap & Detergent Plant - Produces bar soap, anti-bacterial soap, liquid and powdered cleaners and detergents, janitorial products, disinfectant cleaners, dilution control systems, and laundry products.
Based upon the inmate hourly wage of $0.19 - $0.42 per hour (though they can get production bonuses of up to $0.70 per hour in addition to the hourly wage)... it looks like it's gonna be a while before Joe pays his remaining debt of $3645.21 in full.
I'm sure Joe misses the days when they could get $350 an hours from people like Mitch, JJ, Captain, and Nep. It might take him 2 months to make that now.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens to all these things manufactured in the prison at slave wages. I hope they're not competing with private enterprise.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to think somebody is sitting at home surviving on food stamps because prisoners are doing his job at 42 cents an hour, but I suspect that's the case.
Wow it's like that song 99 bottles of beers on the wall u take one down pass it around now just 98 years to pay off the debt just kidding but wow dose any one know if he gets paid weekly or monthly and is it all going to the debt or can any of it be used for comecery ?
ReplyDeleteFrom a quick look at the list posted in the Blog about what Joe will probably will be employed producing, the products appear to be mostly used within the prison system or elsewhere within state of Pennsylvania government.
ReplyDeleteIn this sense they do compete with private enterprise to a point. You could say it is a way to contribute to the cost of confinement.
"JamesG85 said...
ReplyDeleteWow it's like that song 99 bottles of beers on the wall u take one down pass it around now just 98 years to pay off the debt just kidding but wow dose any one know if he gets paid weekly or monthly and is it all going to the debt or can any of it be used for comecery ?"
Up to 30% of an imates wage goes to pay for court costs, fines, restitution, etc... I'm not sure how often they're paid, but I'll see if I can find out.
Here's an interesting article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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Bringing in $16.80 a week, and $873.60 a year, he'll have that paid off in just 4 years and 3 months -- and then everything he earns from that point he can use to pay for protection, or keep his bitch boy in makeup.
ReplyDelete"Gandalf said...
ReplyDeleteBringing in $16.80 a week, and $873.60 a year, he'll have that paid off in just 4 years and 3 months"
Actually, only up to 30% of that $16.80 a week would go to paying his bill(s), or roughly $5.04 a week, and that's assuming he's being paid the highest amount (not including the production bonus) - this would equal to it taking 723 weeks, or roughly 14 years. If Joe's paid on the low-end (0.19 cents per-hour), it could take almost 30 years.