The ones sent out to work in my state don’t get reduced sentences and their pay goes to the prisons. They’re used as dishwashers in corporate restaurants, they do laundry for sanitation services and cook at fast food places, like KFC

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5