Comment on California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 week agoYes, this is unconstitutional,and the constitutional kind is immoral.
I brought up convict leasing because charges were often made up or people were convicted of violations like not having a job. Essentially if you were black in the south you could be arrested and re-enslaved at any time. Not that far off from what we’re witnessing here. Trials were a formality and the laws were unjust to begin with.