Almost all prisons and jails are public. Most work in prisons is stuff like laundry or meals in the prison itself. And people will be going to jail not prison, which often have zero work requirements. This is to get people out of sight or drive them out of town.
“Public” is a vague term unless you drill down to all the private subcontractors that profit off the “public” prison industrial complex.
Just one data source:
www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publica...
