Incarcerated Alabamans “are trapped in this labor trafficking scheme,” a new federal class action lawsuit says.

Incarcerated Alabamans and labor organizations have filed a federal class action lawsuit to dismantle the forced prison labor system in the state, which rakes in $450 million annually from leasing incarcerated people to companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Wendy’s.

Leasing people reduces them to the status of property which literal slavery.

  • miz@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    the NATOpedia page for convict leasing uses the past tense

    Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States, the laborers being mainly African-American men; it was ended during the 20th century.

    O RLY?

    • huf [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      from the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Convict_leasing#Convict_leasing_ended%3F

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