wasn't sure where to post this, since I made it in GIMP, I'm putting it here
The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration - Cornell Law Review
hexbear.net watermarked version by request:
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Getting rid of prison slavery is on the ballot in Louisiana!
That's great, the Angola prison there is a modern day plantation. I believe it is the prison where the picture of a
slavehandprison guard on a horse above inmates working on a farm comes from.https://innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/AP_110818057355.jpg
from
How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended
I think prisons have increasingly become the employer of last resort for small and dying communities. Utah isn't very populous, but I think it gets a decent enough tourism income. Maybe the lack of completely deprived communities makes it easier not to cave to the prison industrial complex. Wild guess
Utah also has super overbuilt public works budgets in some small towns as a way of keeping young people from moving away because there are no jobs or opportunities. Maybe that competes with prison labor
doesn't seem like a bad policy, that's a rare gem for an overfunded public expenditure in :amerikkka: to be constructive and not evil
You should slap a :hexbear-retro: on this and post it to :reddit-logo:
make sure to keep "Ammendment", which will bait a thousand pedants to engage with your post
Ammendment
dangit, I even tried to spell check that but must have been too high in my copypasta frenzy
took a minute to find the watermark
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So it's only been fully outlawed in woke and progressive places like... Utah and Nebraska?
