New York is battling the coronavirus – and price gouging – with a germ-killing hand sanitizer produced by maximum-security prison inmates who work for less than 65 cents an hour. “As the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus continues to rise, unscrupulous retailers are exploiting New Yorkers' anxieties about the virus, and charging exorbitant prices for hand sanitizer and other similar products,” Gov. HEAD OF PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUSBut the Legal Aid Society, which represents indigent defendants, accused Cuomo of “exploiting incarcerated New Yorkers to produce cheap hand sanitizers,” according to the Post. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGEThe hand sanitizer is being produced at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility in upstate New York, which has the capacity to produce 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer per week. New York pays inmates less than 65 cents an hour, according to Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Source: Fox News March 10, 2020 14:26 UTC