Comment on you need to be doing this
yakko@feddit.uk 18 hours agoAmerican prisons are straight up slavery, no extra steps. It’s deliberate.
Comment on you need to be doing this
yakko@feddit.uk 18 hours agoAmerican prisons are straight up slavery, no extra steps. It’s deliberate.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, it’s explicit, too. It’s stated formally in the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un…
Also, the incarceration rate for black Americans is nearly five times higher than that of white Americans:
theglobalstatistics.com/united-states-prison-race…
Couple that with the image of a corrections officer overseeing farm labor from horseback (I wish I were joking), which includes, but is not limited to, actually picking cotton, and can see exactly what they’re trying to do.
worthrises.org/…/prison-labor-in-agriculture-peop…