Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
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The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.

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…

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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:

    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.

    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.