☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 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: worldnews@lemmy.mlworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@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 ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 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.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 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.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 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