happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.
"Over 4,100 corporations profit from mass incarceration in the United States."
"Around 63,000 inmates produce goods for external sale...from farm work and manufacturing to call center and distribution services."
"In Oklahoma and Mississippi, [work release] is not restricted to inmates. Oklahoma uses defendants sent to rehabilitation programs to process chickens at a private facility for no pay... Mississippi has ārestitution programsā where it sends people to work off debts owed to the state by acting as a temp agency for a number of industries."
"...federal immigration detention centers rely on the labor of civil immigrant detainees to lower their operating costs. The large prison corporations running the centers ā like CoreCivic and GEO Group ā are currently facing lawsuits, alleging that they employ deprivation schemes, where detained immigrants are forced to choose between living without basic necessities or working for sub-minimum wages, and then are threatened with punishment for refusing to work."
This post follows on from our post exploring the use of prison labor during the Covid-19 pandemic. It details the current forms that priso
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