“Routinely denying them parole.”
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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>The Associated Press found as part of a two-year investigation into prison labor. The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 through money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks.
>Most jobs are inside facilities, where the state’s inmates — who are disproportionately Black — can be sentenced to hard labor and forced to work for free doing everything from mopping floors to laundry. But more than 10,000 inmates have logged a combined 17 million work hours outside Alabama’s prison walls since 2018, for entities like city and county governments and businesses that range from major car-part manufacturers and meat-processing plants to distribution centers for major retailers like Walmart, the AP determined.
>While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons, which are so dangerous that the federal government filed a lawsuit four years ago that remains pending, calling the treatment of prisoners unconstitutional.
WHAT THE FUCK
Every time I learn something new about the USA and my first reaction is disbelief, then it turns out its not satire.
Yeah. Slavery as a punishment for a crime is legal. It’s in the 13th Amendment. It’s not new.
If they’re behaved enough for anything like this, their next parole hearing needs to be rubber stamped.
This is what awaits the illegal immigrants that are gathered up to be “deported”.
Red states REALLY want slavery back.
This is why they’re criminalizing being unhoused.
This is why they’re criminalizing being poor.
This is why they’re criminalizing everything.
This is why private prison stocks boomed right after the election.
This is why the autocrats want ‘the plebs’ to have more kids.’
This is why they want to halt immigration.
They’re bringing back chattel slavery, but dressing it up pretty as ‘law and order.’
Their plan is to lock up as many people as possible and use them for cheap/free labor.
It is. As stated by the 13th amendment, which **strictly regulates slavery** by providing each state with the possibility to use it as punishment.
This effectively make the states that choose to have forced unpaid labor, monopolies of slavery.
Edit: for those confused, chattel slavery is not the only kind of slavery. Every kind of forced unpaid labor is slavery
Might explain why there’s so many that are innocent in prison. I, myself, have pleaded to charges when I was innocent. I’ve also taking a case to trial and was convicted, even though I was innocent.
modern day slavery
Every day I lose a little bit more faith in humanity.
This is why I think mass deportations are a scam to enrich private prisons. They’ll detain those folks and have them picking the same fruit as “leased inmates.”
Wait, so what happens if the inmates are just like “nah fuck that I’ll just sit on the floor”?
Have for-profit prisons, which incentivizes harsher punishments for lesser crimes, and then when they’ve been jailed, pressure them into working for free. Modern day slavery.
The U.S sure knows how to exploit ~~black~~ people huh?
So when they want more money, they just jail more people for minor offences that normally shouldn’t result in jail time, get them thrown in jail and voila, free labor.
3rd world, shithole country.
Man, Americans just can’t help themselves when it comes to slavery. Land of the free.
Lol this isn’t anything new or even secret. Hell in the past election where a lot of states ratified abortion rights in their state constitutions while also voting for Trump, Californians literally voted to not make prisoner slavery illegal in their constitution.
People have always been okay with slavery, as long as the slaves are subhuman, enemy trash. Much easier to justify with criminals than an entire race of humanity. Of course if a few… “Undesirable” races happen to be unfairly targeted for crimes more often, what can ya do?
Criminals in general in the US lose a lot of rights, you don’t get to keep them as a criminal lol they’re reserved for law-abiding citizens. And once you’ve served your sentence you still don’t necessarily get all your rights back, like how ex-cons in Florida can’t vote.
In fact most slaves in the past were just POW’s or criminals. *Technically* the Africans of the slave trade were also POW’s… Just extremely manufactured. Provide guns to African tribes, watch them take down neighboring tribes for territory, buy their POW’s, and sell more guns. Disgusting, isn’t it?
Of course, sex slavery/human trafficking in general is a whole different beast and still rampant in the modern day. PS be careful if you’re going to watch the Superbowl in person.
13th amendment. This isn’t news. The US economy is still propped up by slavery.
I read an article yesterday about what was happening down there and I can’t remember the last time I read something that made me want to cry and punch something at the same time. Its horrible what they are doing and I have a bad feeling that is what they are going to start doing with the “illegal” immigration problems.
It’s nice that the criminal justice system has a financial motivation for convicting people and holding them in jail.
Nike are known to use prison labor
Yep. Picking cotton, among other things. Here in TX. And privately owned prisons.
People keep talking about “the end of the world” like it’s some far off thing. This is it, in the history books they will talk about how we watched ourselves drown and did nothing to stop it because we’re bickering about what labels bathroom doors should have. SMH. When will wake up?? My heart can’t take it anymore.
America – the highest highs and the lowest lows.
I’ll stick with Europe where nothings perfect but I’m even the worst of places, nothings this blatantly corrupt and evil.
I would say this would be good if they were basically given freedom while being monitored, but that’s what parole is I think (I may be wrong)
I swear to god, america is just becoming a giant trigger warning at this point.
While I would say it probably good for inmates to work in some capacity to gain new skills that they can use outside.
I.e. in the 80s my uncle taught sewing to inmates by having them reapulaster chairs. It was 100% voluntary workshop the inmates sign up for themselves.
Not whatever the hell this shit is.
That doesn’t sound rehabilitative at all.
How to raise resentment 101.
From Thor: Ragnerok
Grandmaster: Revolution? How did this happen?
Topaz: Don’t know. But the Arena’s mainframe for the Obedience Disks have been deactivated and the slaves have armed themselves.
Grandmaster: Ohhh! I don’t like that word!
Topaz: Mainframe?
Grandmaster: No. Why would I not like “mainframe?” No, the “S” word!
Topaz: Sorry, the “prisoners with jobs” have armed themselves.
Grandmaster: Okay, that’s better.
Slavery is legal with prisoners. Go read the 13th amendment. That’s how the south got around it and implemented “chain gangs”. Just create some trumped up charges, lock them up, and now we have them as slaves again.
If you look at the [maps of minimum prison wages by state,](https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers) you notice that there is no real opposition to the use of incarcerated labor anywhere in the US.
The “progressive” states give the captive workers 35 cents an hour, and confiscate 80% of that. Benefiting corporations and their paid representatives have no incentive to oppose such a subsidy, so the only way to end it is another civil war, or wait for centuries for it to be incrementally reformed, as was the case with slavery.
You did nazi that coming…right?!? 🤷♂️
This is sick.