https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-food/
I'm just thinking about how a socialist penal system could use employment in a civilian workplace as a way of helping convicted criminals to reintegrate into society and how fundamentally different it would be from this American burger slavery.
in capitalist USA, burger slavery is constitutionally protected and you can be leased to McDonalds if you commit minor crimes.North Korea rapidly running out of bad things burgerbrains can make up about them that actually they do themselves in their own country.
- the burger slave cannot eat burgers they make, only slave food of lower quality. when the burger slave is released, they have to pay back the state for imprisoning them. they cannot get the job they did at mcdonalds as a slave because they have a criminal record. they cannot afford the burger made by other slaves. they go back to prison for violating parole and are sent to the burger plantation again.
I will fight and die in WWIII against CHYNA to defend this way of life.
Holy shit, that sounds like the opening of a Law & Order spinoff in the very near future
It used to be practiced in the United States. It still is, but it used to be, too.
Cop City is being centered on the grounds of an old prison slave camp (that ran til the 90s I think) which fed a lot of the greater Atlanta area
Black kid smokes a joint: prison labor and permanent inability to get livable wage.
Rich white (or honorary white) SV enjoying techbros drugging their "math pets" with new custom drug cocktails: that's just sex positivity and not a crime.
(CW: SV)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum
What's next that america can gentrify for the rich to do without punishment? Legal murder. It's now legal to hunt homeless for sport if you're worth over a mil.
Legal murder.
That's already kind of a thing: the failson heir to the Red Bull throne literally got away with murder already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert
TIL
There's also lots of rich SV enjoyers that never see jail time because rich.
Like the Dupont heir SAing his children and the judge deciding to suspend his prison sentence because it might make him sad.
Don't forget the affluenza kid! He was just so rich he didn't understand things like consequences.
Or how Caitlyn Jenner murdered a whole family because she was texting while driving.
We could make a whole list! 😀
Technically there's already a list
We just don't have the whole list
Hot damn I didn't know that bit. https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/03/beau-biden-defends-handling-du-pont-heir-sex-case/7255629/
Absolutely legal, just kill someone with a car and hire an expensive enough lawyer
Augustus Busch (Busch brewing) was implicated in the deaths of two women and got away with it. One DUI car crash where he fled the scene and left a critically injured woman in the car, one overdose in his apartment.
The image at the top of and the substance of the Vanity Fair article has done 2d12+3 psychic damage to me.
Can't do the time (forced slavery at McDonalds) don't do the crime (wrongly convicted because you're black).
Huh, that just reminds me. All the MRAs worried about “false accusations” will swear up and down that men of color will never worry about being falsely accused, only white men.
I just want to be clear - if a legitimate court is not handy then the laws and customs of the sea state that any ship which captures a slaver vessel may hold a trial before the mast and needs only establish the bare fact that the crew were slavers engaged in the slave trade to hang them all.
What the hell even is that headline?
“Phew! What a relief! Looks like we don’t have to worry about uppity poors like you seeing a penny!”
Really cool and good that prisons are seen as a boost for the already massive reserve army of labor in the west.
This also takes away jobs from the “law-abiding citizens” that these hogs claim to care so much about. So we get the imperial boomerang too! Try using “they’re taking our jobs!” as a reason to oppose the private prison industry.
it's Jacobin. They're "Agreeable Left"(TM) but this is not an article or headline sincerely espousing that, but sarcastically satirizing the 1:1 attitude of the ruling class to do something like this, in agitprop form to highlight the contradiction between the capitalists' and their states' actions and what workers actually want, and so spark anger.
I haven't seen it in a while, but isn't this pretty much exactly the bad guy in Shawshank Redemption's evil plot?
