Always look on the bright side of life

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• thezeesystem@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t jail just slavery according to the 13th amendment? Iirc at least.

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  • erev@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The prison complex doesn’t want you to call it that, but yes. The 13th amendment makes a specific exception for slavery if the person is imprisoned. That’s why prisoners “work” for way below minimum wage in a variety of jobs that they probably didn’t choose. Not to mention that the majority of prisoners are people of color…

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  • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was curious how many people in prison are forced to work. If this source is correct, it’s about 2/3. But the conditions of that work are apparently worse than I’d thought. Here’s the original report (posted last year) and an article with a summary. Correction is welcome if this is inaccurate ◉⁠‿⁠◉

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does matter… Had sex? 🥹

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  • Addition@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only if they force you to work.

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    • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

      (emphasis mine)

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not at all excusing it, but don’t prisoners technically get paid for their work? It’s just some horrifically pathetic wage like $0.50/hr or something like that.

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    • themoken@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Earning a pittance doesn’t mean they’re not slaves. They’re slaves because they can’t quit. Prisoners have basically zero agency in their lives.

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    • AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Slavery doesn’t have anything to do with compensation. Slavery is about the absence of choice.

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    • Whippygoatcream@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are not wrong

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Worker’s rights, unions, and the choice to quit…

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  • Lemmyvisitor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what is the alternative

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    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not… slavery?

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well in the US it is I guess

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• KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this is actually my plan (minus the sex 3 times a day of course) for later in my life, ideally without the going to prison part.

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your “plan” is to read books and workout? Feel free to get started, boss.

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    • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      my plan ist to live a happy and healthy life. living with my parents and going to work hinders me from doing exactly that. i might have the opprtunity to not have to work, so i will gladly do that.

      feel free to continue living your hateful life. but i won’t. i want to change.

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/hDLdgFghC5w

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  • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s funny and all, but you have to work in a real prison. Just like you do in the office. The difference is that by the end of the day you leave the office and enjoy your hard earned money. But when you’re working in prison, you are still in prison by the end of the day. And you don’t get money, because fuck you, that’s why.

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    • crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well if you are in prison, most time’s you deserve that IMHO

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