☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down12cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldbenjamingetthemusket@lemmy.cafe
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldbenjamingetthemusket@lemmy.cafe
minus-squareclever_banana@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year 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.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoI mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons
slavery, its called slavery
The article did call it 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