Are there still merchants, airlines, etc. that use prison labor recklessly?
By this, I mean, in ways that may expose customers to theft and other fraud?
The most obvious example would be employing prisoners to take credit card orders over the phone, as TWA apparently did. But I’d also be concerned about prisoners doing telemarketing: even non-credit-card personal information can be used to commit fraud.
I can’t imagine that security measures could reliably prevent this either, at least not without raising costs considerably.
I know it ain’t good for a company’s reputation to be associated with this. I’m just wondering how much effect public exposure has had on the elimination of such practices.