The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.

  • NutWrench
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    711 months ago

    Slavery never went away. It just became more profitable.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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    611 months ago

    Lookin at you, Idaho potatoes! It didn’t click for me for an embarrassing amount of time why I rarely saw potato fields despite living all over Idaho. They keep them all by the prisons, and tuck the prisons out of sight

    • flipht
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      911 months ago

      Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.

      Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven’t increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.

      It’s literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.

      • @AFDparsons@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        IT HAS THE WORD “EXCEPT” IN IT.

        I still remember learning this for the first time. Truly fucked up. I just can’t get over it.

  • Battle Masker
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    211 months ago

    Where the fuck has the Associated Press been? That’s like US’s worst-kept secret. Like there’s entire movies about all that

  • Maeve
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    111 months ago

    This is why we don’t addreACEs, multigenerational trauma and rehabilitation, homelessness, conditions of despair. We need to get loud about it and stay loud.