☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M 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-down12cross-posted to: earthlingliberationnotes@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mlus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldabolition@slrpnk.net
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsapnews.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: earthlingliberationnotes@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mlus_news@lemmygrad.mlnews@kbin.socialworkreform@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldabolition@slrpnk.net
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPMlinkfedilink2•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-square@clever_bananalink2•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
minus-square@clever_bananalink1•5 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