Readers of this blog know that I strongly believe that we need to start throwing corporate executives in jail when workers are injured or die on the job. Fines just don’t cut it–it’s a cost of doing business…and a tax-deductible cost to boot. Let them lose touch with their BMWs, personal assistants, Blackberries, good food and McMansions for months or years and I’d wager that, lickety-split, we’d see some serious changes in the workplace.

   Which is why I smiled when I read this story:

A woman who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island home was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday.

The woman, Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband, Mahender Sabhnani, in December of involuntary servitude and other charges. He will be sentenced on Friday.

   This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the treatement of domestic workers. (check this out for more). But, these people should have their faces plastered on posters that go up in every neighborhood warning people who employ domestic workers what their fate might be.