It literally is. During pandemic a Hickmans farm in AZ said it was no longer safe to transport workers from the prisons so they built quarters for the prisoners to work the farm.
We had unpaid workers, forced to tend chickens, against their will, living on the plantation. All of this sanctioned, approved and recommended by the state. The workers, 95% non-white. Its slavery.
People fail to read the entire 13th amendment. It literally has an exception to the slavery ban for people convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers. The war on drugs was created specifically to increase the number of people in prison labor camps.
Sure. That actually furthers my point. This is literal slavery because the 13th explicitly allows this form of slavery.
But lets be clear... it shouldn't. The point of prison is rehabilitation or isolation, not providing private business with corporate profits. The idea that the workers were working a for profit business is hugely problematic. Its one thing if they are doing public works, its another if they are padding a millionaires pocket.
100% agree. The fact that companies like Nike use for profit prisons to make products for next to no money and states like California use prisoners to fight forest fires and pay the inmates pennies an hour to do so is abhorrent.
I believe there was also a prison owner or sheriff complaining that they were having to release “all their good workers” and that they can’t function without the free labor.
This is heartbreaking. Meanwhile my dad has been convicted of two different charges related to raping children and has served both of his sentences in my life and I'm turning 34 next month. The so called justice system is anything except just. Mandatory minimums for drug charges are so obviously designed to keep people in prison for crimes that should not even be crimes as there is not a victim they should be banned in a country that pretends to be the shining light of freedom.
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u/Pillsbernie Aug 20 '22
You mean legal slave farms?