☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml • 7 months agoPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brandsexternal-linkmessage-square6 fedilinkarrow-up122cross-posted to: politicsus_news@lemmygrad.mllabour
arrow-up122external-linkPrisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml • 7 months agomessage-square6 Commentsfedilinkcross-posted to: politicsus_news@lemmygrad.mllabour
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlhexagonMhexbear3·7 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareclever_banana@lemmy.todayhexbear2·edit-27 months agoI mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons linkfedilink
minus-squareclever_banana@lemmy.todayhexbear1·7 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 linkfedilink
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