In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola
      • umbrella
        2·
        11 months ago

        because they dont want to badmouth the system too much

    • bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      Section 1 of the 13th amendment.

      Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

      What a farce.

      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        Here, you see exactly why we don’t seen release of petty drug possession prisoners, just as few as possible to be performative.

        For-profit prisons shouldn’t exist.