The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
      41·
      11 months ago

      It’s slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

      • clever_banana@lemmy.today
        2·
        11 months ago

        I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons

    • clever_banana@lemmy.today
      1·
      11 months ago

      Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

      The article did call it slavery