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Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds (inthesetimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

Fuck for profit prisons. Legal slavery deserves to be burned to the ground. As long as one human is denied their rights we all are.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 38 points 4 months ago

It's not just for profit prisons, it's forced labor for convicts. We decided as a country that slavery is still ok if you have a conviction.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago

Been needing this far too often since stealing it from someone else's post...

[-] AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

That's why the government makes it so easy to charge and convict people

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 4 months ago

Unless you're a em.. "pillar of the community" wink wink.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I used to believe every person in prison was a bad guy who deserved it.

Then I read about Nixon, the drug epidemic, for profit prisons and cheap labor, How those who finish their sentence are treated like second class citizens...

[-] linkshandig@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

We have to end this by any means necessary

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Hey at least the US abolished slavery amirite

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