"Many of these guys are happy to do the work and get days shaved off their terms"
This is the reason those days were on their terms in the first place
"it's not slave labour, it's indentured servitude" isn't the defence that guy thinks it is.
Shout out to the author of the '94 crime bill and his cop VP
Step 1 - Give incredibly long sentences for petty crimes
Step 2- Offer to shave time off sentences in exchange for work
Step 3 - Voluntary free labor!!
lock Black people in cages for having a flower collection
Now all the work they do is "voluntary"
also look at CHINA, they're literally colonizing Africa by giving them free money. Don't look at us.
Prison labor is voluntary, but if you talk to any ex-cons or prisoners about it, it's not really voluntary. This guy got sent to solitary for trying to organize his fellow prisoners, solitary confinement is known to be torture.
There were people on twitter talking about how prison labor often isn't voluntary. One man described having to work in cotton fields all day, every day in the burning sun being looked over by sniper towers and guards on horseback. If you refused to work you were sent to solitary confinement.
Write a prison strike organizer. A lot of them are still in lockup. Their names are on the IWW IWOC website and the Jailhous Lawyers Speak website.
Edit: letters keep folks safe because they look like a support network to guards. Then they start thinking "maybe I shouldn't beat this guy up, he's got people who might sue me."
California. Bonus, California prohibits felons from becoming firefighters.
It's like saying a rat you trapped in a cage made a free choice to gnaw its own leg off to not starve.
its funny when "I don't want to get into this" means "don't question my tacit endorsement"
"It's great they're getting training!" Might be true if California and most other states didn't have laws forbidding felons and former inmates from serving in fire Departments.
These are the same ghouls who'd say that sex between a guard and a prisoner is consensual
Holy fucking brainworms. Imagine making 'it's not technically slavery' your hill to die on. Let's just abolish prisons already ffs
You can volunteer to fight fires for free or you can volunteer to stay in jail longer for possession of 1 micro gram of cannabis.
