☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 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.mlus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldabolition@slrpnk.netlabour@hexbear.net
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 · 5 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldabolition@slrpnk.netlabour@hexbear.net
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 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-25 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