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Eileen Clancy@clancyny.bsky.social |
Blockbuster story from AP – prison labor powers the biggest brands in the U.S. food business and fast food chains. Target, Walmart, Aldi, Burger King are involved and many more. Two years of reporting by the Pulitzer-winning team of Robin McDowell and Margie Mason.
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@LuLuRoche
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Slavery
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Nikole
@picnik.bsky.social
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Not Target or Aldi! Proof? #PayWall
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steeb
@stevewonderbelt.bsky.social
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Big shocker for me reading this is learning that many states require you to pay for your own room and board while you're incarcerated. So basically we lock people up, and then make them pay (or go into debt if they can't) for being locked up.
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Menhir
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When I was still working for gvt. I put clauses in contracts that forbade the supply of goods from forced prison labour or child labour. It reminds me of NAZI practices. If prisoners get paid a decent wage then that is another thing though.
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kayfabe schadenfreude
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welp, it's official, monetizing every-fucking-thing is evil and stupid, and will destroy the world
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TimeTraveler
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This is the reason they want to make it illegal to be homeless so they can throw them in jail and make them work for pennies. Modern day slavery.
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Defaulty
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So you're telling me this whole time... we've all been eating prison food?
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Jarda
@jarda.bsky.social
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Isn't this the reason why in the US people get imprisoned for whichever stupid reason? It's a wonder jaywalking is not already one of them. Prisons and slave labour are a great business.
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サージャントヒッピー
@sgthippie.bsky.social
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Our food is being grown by enslaved people in the South. This reminds me of something awful.
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Camilla Pack-A-Bowl
@eddyedb.bsky.social
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The confederates won
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Scott #ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉
@smenor.com
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Gotta love the fucking 13ᵗʰ Amendment
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Rae
@alsorae.bsky.social
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Making America slavery again.
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Jim Kennedy
@jdk23.bsky.social
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Not too mention child labor !!
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Laura GreenBird
@greenbirdo.bsky.social
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This should be more about the workers than the food brands. Except of course these guys don't qualify as workers because they're exempt from working conditions and not paid or minimally paid.
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Laustia 🏳️🌈
@laustia.bsky.social
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"MADE IN THE U.S.ofAssholes"
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Grandpa (of) DRE
@keefderyem.bsky.social
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The System is Corrupt!
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Stuffrobynsays
@stuffrobynsays.bsky.social
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Jesus end stage capitalism is fucking dark
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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really nice to see that 13th amendment working out
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Liev
@lefloon.bsky.social
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You didn’t think that America was done slavery, right? RIGHT?
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Jaxpet1233
@jaxpet.bsky.social
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Damn
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🎸Paul🎹
@paul.bsky.social
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Wealthy business owners depend on enslaved people for their own enrichment? No way.
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Noh, Bodhi
@nohbodhi.bsky.social
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Prisons for profit are never a good idea.
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Śẻήơɼ Wơƙẻ Ảś Pɦưƈƙ 🇺🇲 ✌️ ❤️ 🚴 🤿 🚣♂️ 🌈 🇺🇦
@divebum.bsky.social
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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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TheLeoTerrell'sStankyTaint
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"They also say workers are learning skills that can be used when they’re released and given a sense of purpose, which could help ward off repeat offenses." Sounds like a certain governor of FLA.
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Dance: 10⁻¹, Looks: 3
@andrew3000.bsky.social
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I listened to the Sugarland podcast not long ago and plus ça change ...
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brooklynnygirl
@brooklynnygirl.bsky.social
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I never buy from Whole Foods as they are a giant ripoff. To see they have the audacity to charge those outrageous prices when they are buying from prisons and exploiting prison laborers makes me sick to my stomach. I do buy a few items from Kroger that I just can't get anywhere else.
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Anodyne
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Here's a good discussion on the issue of legal slavery persisting in the United States (and current efforts to abolish it) with Max Parthas, National Campaign Coordinator and Founding Member of the Abolish Slavery National Network.
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Anodyne
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Thanks for sharing this. Having gone through the comments (and barely managed not to yell at a few awful people therein), I very much appreciate it.
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Paula
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Horrible, disgusting, disgraceful
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CornPop
@usmc.bsky.social
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AP. Great media. Must have the true facts. If I was you I’d run with it
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Sado
@marinovic.bsky.social
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Would it be such a heavy lift to push for an amendment that is something like “no but really we’re abolishing slavery for real this time, we don’t care if you think prisoners don’t count” or is that hopelessly naive
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Christopher May
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Totally shameful that this is still happening.
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Comrade Sokk
@casualsokk.bsky.social
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LMFAO I can't believe it took them THIS LONG to post a story like this. The private prison system has been doing this for decades. There are literally prisoners picking cotton in Louisiana.
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Mela Storm
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It's distressing and disgusting that we still condone slavery in prisons. It may be legal, but it's surely not right.
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Paul Driggere 🦋
@writerwithcats.bsky.social
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Let me see if I understand here. People do really bad things they get sent to prison for and are NOT expected to pay society back for their deeds in some way...? This isn't slavery. This is restitution to society to me. Fine, then don't force the labor. Make it a PAID OPTION for prisoners. Done.
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birdie
@idiocracy.bsky.social
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Modern day slavery.
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Dr. Dev
@sicksadfilms.bsky.social
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I wrote about this back in 2014, glad to see it’s getting major coverage now.
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Rowdy
@rrrowdy.bsky.social
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Kind of fucked up that these people are doing slave labor for Burger King while they're in prison, and then they get out of prison and Burger King is the only place that will hire them.
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Is it really blockbuster though? We've known for years.
www.vox.com/2018/8/24/17...
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David Bikman
@bikman.bsky.social
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It's almost like this country was founded on slavery.
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Evilbunny Pottymouth - Help us flush the Orange Turd in November
@mrsquirrel.bsky.social
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Slave labor?
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Elizabeth Roderick
@talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
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As an ex con, this is 100% slave labor, full stop. Calling it anything else is disingenuous. There’s a reason we have the highest prison population in the world: imprisonment is big business and a fresh supply of slave labor.
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ZeroChill
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It’s better than organ farming or experimental drug trails….oooooh wait hahah that already happens. Good thing I only buy shirts made in other countries so I know a child not an American prisoner has touched it.
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Tamara Bumpdeeay
@moiness.bsky.social
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What was that kerfuffle in the 1860s about again?
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Desmond Fallout
@desmondfallout.bsky.social
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Why pay employees when you can arrest them, I guess. 🙃
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The Twice-Lost Geek
@twicelostgeek.bsky.social
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This is slave labor.
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Eileen Clancy
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AP: "U.S. Prison Labor Tied to Some of the World’s Most Popular Food Brands." Robin McDowell and Margie Mason literally followed cattle transported from Angola, the nation's largest maximum security prison, to auction. And, into America's food supply. Video: Robert Bumstead & Mark Vancleave. 3 min.
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