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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social |
800,000 imprisoned people in the US produce $10 billion of value each year through their labor. $2 billion for private industry. The state of Alabama alone makes $450 million off the labor of incarcerated workers.
We have a word for this.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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That Devil Girl
@thatdevilgirl.bsky.social
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What happens if you're in prison and refuse to work?
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kbees 🍉
@beesnotbombs.bsky.social
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Damn, using prison labor to build more prisons is so fucking bleak
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@thewanderingturkey.com
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The Thirteenth didn’t fully abolish slavery—only private slavery. The work of abolition and reconstruction was never finished, and these are the consequences.
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@ganderboy.bsky.social
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Crime does pay. Just not the criminals.
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Ozma
@rowyourbot.bsky.social
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Prison slavery is stll legal WTF
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Xoe Valk
@x03v.bsky.social
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I wonder, if incarcerated individuals were paid the same wages as their "free" counterparts, how many would be likely to repeat-offend after release? Seems to me a cause of re-offending is lack of resources. If they were to have access to full wages saved upon their release, they'd have no reason.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
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During the height of the pandemic, prisoners washed hospital laundry, made masks, and dug mask graves. Now they are building more prisons. The free market at work, amirite?!?
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Tobias Carroll
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
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Was just reading Rachel Slade's MAKING IT IN AMERICA, which has some sobering data in a related vein.
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TheOtherPenn
@theotherpenn.bsky.social
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The US is literally a slave state. It's in the Constitution and everything, prisoners can still be enslaved. This bears repeating for those who don't know. If cannabis is decriminalized federally they'll come up with some other law to enslave mostly black men under on trumped-up charges.
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Moderately Grouchy
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It is however literally spelled out in the Constitution that slavery ... of imprisoned people ... is legal.
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Moderately Grouchy
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It's a sad statement about Alabama that they can only make $450M off their prisoners
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John DeRosa
@theverdict.bsky.social
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And yet, even so, Alabama is a political and economic shithole
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OrdinaryLunch.bsky.social
@ordinarylunch.bsky.social
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The people that make these decisions that affect millions of us have names, addresses, vacation homes, favorite restaurants, and go to ball games. Why are they allowed to do all of those things comfortably?
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The Bear Jieux
@thebearjieux.bsky.social
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Slavery continues in America, but is no different than what we see in other countries. We are no different than the Middle East.
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Dawa Zangpo
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The economy loves slavery.
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@twilightts.bsky.social
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"Constitutional"
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Rain of Terra (she/her)
@rainofterra.bsky.social
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It's also notable that felony prisoners are disenfranchised in 48 states while in prison and may permanently lose voting rights in 9 states including Alabama.
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Marguerite
@candyworks.bsky.social
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This doesn’t get talked about enough, if at all. But once you’re aware of it you cannot possibly believe this is a democracy we live in. What can we go about it?? This goes on in blue states as well. Dems excel in pronouns; human rights of the incarcerated, not so much. Ugh.
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Beardie Fett
@beardiefett.bsky.social
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The prison-industrial complex
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