Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill…
You’re not wrong about how prisons should be about rehab etc, and prison labor is vile.
But you got it backwards. These woke agendas are perverting the prison system…. It was always meant to be this way. (Which is why prison labor is the only form of forced labor constitutionally protected.)
Woah there, fascist alert
That’s amusing. So fascists are for prison reform?
all I’m really saying is that the using prisoners for slave labor was always intended- which is why it’s enshrined in the US constitution as the only exception to slave labor:
You can hate that all you want. I certainly do. It should be changed, but the unfortunate reality is it would take a constitutional amendment to get rid of it. A state might be able to pass a law forbidding it it, but I some how doubt it would survive in the current judicial atmosphere.
If you use the words woke agenda unironically, you are not welcome in this instance of Lemmy.
it was absolutely sarcastic.
the point I’m trying to make is that… prison labor is protected as the sole exception to slave labor in the US constitution. Prison labor has always been intended as a replacement for outright slavery.
Ah okay, you’re not a conservative idiot, you’re a liberal who is very bad at conveying sarcasm. Carry on.
It’s hard to do sarcasm about conservatives. The shit they say is so much crazier then anything I’d think of to mock them
I believe they’re using it sarcastically, especially considering that they say prison labor is vile.