#prison workers

[onlytiktoks]

[loislane-nyc]

NEWS! ~~~ NJ commuting, prison workers, dems, california electricity, snow, zizians

[tearsofrefugees]

Illinois state senator asks prison workers to secretly contact her about undocumented immigrants

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A downstate Republican lawmaker is urging Illinois prison employees to secretly send her information on undocumented imm

[gwydionmisha]

‘They Slave Us’: Prison Workers on Life Behind Bars

[spookingxinxsilence]

I’m getting tired of people saying prison labor is slavery.

I’m not here to argue about ethics, I’m here to remind you of linguistics.

Slaves are property, prisoners (in the USA) are not.

A slave, by definition, doesn’t even have to work they just have to be owned.  Slaves also worked in unfair, unsafe conditioned, but didn’t get paid.

So before reblogging another post about prisoner-farmers or prisoner-tech support operators, ask yourself

Is this person owned?

Is this person paid?

Don’t point to these prisoners and say, “Slavery still exists here!”

It does exist here, but citing incorrect examples, belittles the argument.

[think-progress]

Protests Planned In Over 20 States To Expose ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In U.S. Prisons