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When I did time in 2005 I worked at a cemetery weed-eating for 24 dollars a month. My cellmate worked at the courthouse as a custodian, and some worked at a factory. I can’t call it slavery because we were paid, and not whipped, but it is definitely exploitation
Forced labor is still slavery even if you’re paid and not whipped.
Is this also a consequence of allowing prisons to be privately owned?
I could totally understand a government owned prison, using prison labor for federal departments such as maintenance and landscaping etc.
As awful as this is, private prisons abusing loopholes as a way to make evem more profits, its hardly surprising
Privately owned prisons are a small fraction of prisons. This is just a broken system.
Ah yes, more of that voluntary nature of capitalism they like to crow about.
Seems like a natural extension of using prison laborers to farm the cattle for their hamburgers.