dazerl@lemmy.worldBanned to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square124linkfedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.05Karrow-down1videoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comdazerl@lemmy.worldBanned to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square124linkfedilink
minus-squareJack@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up134·2 months agoAnd how is that different from slavery?
minus-squareLaurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up151·2 months agoIt isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
minus-squareWest_of_West@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90·2 months agoCould also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
minus-squareSineljora@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoAll of our 401ks invest in it.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoalso to put them in perpetually low wage jobs, where they cant complain, much like they do with Immigrants. and to live them socioeconomically disadvantaged for generations with no way to lift them out of.
minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up51·2 months agoThey get a whole 3/5 of their wages!
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·2 months agoI see what you did there
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoit is slavery with extra steps, and to say its “not like slavery”
And how is that different from slavery?
It isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
Could also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
All of our 401ks invest in it.
also to put them in perpetually low wage jobs, where they cant complain, much like they do with Immigrants. and to live them socioeconomically disadvantaged for generations with no way to lift them out of.
They get a whole 3/5 of their wages!
I see what you did there
it is slavery with extra steps, and to say its “not like slavery”