Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Vivian Nunes. Coming up, getting people back into work after they've spent time in jail is an aim many society's share. But how do we do it?

We talk about the positives. So even if people have been in prison, people in prison still develop transferable skills whilst they're in prison that apply to work.

So it's the way often we tell the story.

From confinement to coffee.

We hired him literally the day he was released and he worked with us for about five months

and he now works as a delivery driver for another big coffee company.

That's all in Business Daily from the BBC.

In prisons around the world, inmates are put to work.

In the United States, prisoners are employed to fight wildfires, pick apricots,

even stitch uniforms for McDonald's.

Prison labour there is a billion dollar industry, but one in

which inmates are paid pennies, earning between 23 cents and a dollar 15 per hour. Lester Young

Jr is from South Carolina. At the age of 19, he was convicted of murder and spent 22 years behind bars.

But since his release, he's become a motivational speaker,

supporting teenagers to make better choices and value education.

Leicester says that prison labour in the US is too often,

just low-paid work which will lead nowhere

when incarcerated people re-enter the community.

I was working on hardwood floors, designing or scraping, hand scraping

hardwood floors like maple, oak, cherry, those different types of wood. We would hand scrape

to put different grooves and then polished the wood and then they would actually send the wood back

out to the society to this company. And the company would make millions of dollars off of our labor. Some of these companies that we work for inside of the society, to this company, and the company will make millions of dollars off of our labor.

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