☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M to United States | News & PoliticsEnglish · 11 months agoPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down11cross-posted to: politics@hexbear.netearthlingliberationnotes@lemmy.worldworldnewshackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-linkPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M to United States | News & PoliticsEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@hexbear.netearthlingliberationnotes@lemmy.worldworldnewshackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoIt’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.
minus-squareclever_banana@lemmy.todaycakelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoI mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons
minus-squareclever_banana@lemmy.todaycakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 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
slavery, its called slavery
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.
I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons
The article did call it slavery