☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·11 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.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-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
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