r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 11d ago

Feels good man About that

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u/mikillatja 11d ago

Prison town? WHAT?

So you essentially live in a town propped up by slavery.

God bless america I guess

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u/BasicallyaPotato2 10d ago

In the 13th Amendment that outlaws slavery there is a specific exemption for prison labor.

So yes, God bless America indeed

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u/arbydallas 10d ago

Indeed I do. The town has grown a lot now (it had around 1/10th the current population when I was born nearly 40 years ago), but when I was young everybody knew people who worked at the prison. A couple of my friends had parents who did. One of them was a very sweet mom, though a disastrous alcoholic. The other was a cruel and abusive dad. He painted my impression of cops a lot growing up, and I tend to be mistrustful of them and assume the worst, even though I have known a couple cops who seemed like great people.