In a state without a wage floor of its own, allowing employers to default to the federal wage floor of $7.25 per hour, ADOC collects 40 percent of the inmates’ gross paycheck. ADOC also deducts fees from the inmates’ paychecks to pay for transporting inmates between the prisons where they live and the “free world” jobs where they work, as well as washing their uniforms.
ADOC calls the whole scheme “convict leasing.” But given inmates’ inability to quit when they want to without repercussions behind bars, the system is closer to involuntary servitude — i.e., slavery.
"if you wagies keep complaining about wanting more, us epic techbro masterminds will replace you with AI bazinga robots"
the reality:
It always comes back to meat space and meat power. Cyberspace is basically like a spectral image super-imposed upon the world that evaporates instantly upon any sort of physical pushback.
Even the term they use ("convict leasing") is like, what the fuck. Like the thirteenth amendment was already mask off, but now we're just straight up saying you can lease other people?
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