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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
“Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc @ UNB; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; preorder *The End of College Football*: t.co/0C19WAmL6y
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During the height of the pandemic, prisoners washed hospital laundry, made masks, and dug mask graves. Now they are building more prisons. The free market at work, amirite?!?

Prison labor touches almost every corner of American life. Prisoners farm on former slave plantations in Louisiana and upholster high school auditorium furniture in Massachusetts. They produce Russell Stover chocolates in Kansas and handle DMV customer service calls in New York. In 2014 lawyers for Kamala Harris, then California’s attorney general, argued against easing the state’s parole process because it was so dependent on captive firefighters. During the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, prisoners washed hospital laundry, made masks and dug mass graves. These days, they’re also building more prisons.
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TJthejefe.bsky.social

If the GOP gets their way they are going to need a place to put everyone they don't like. The first mass wave is going to be the homeless and immigrants.

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TLtorrleonard.bsky.social

Not only is much of the public fine with it, even many inmates are fine with it. Americans are insane. bsky.app/profile/torr...

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“Chris Sullivan, an incarcerated worker who was recently paroled, says he resented seeing the state profit from prison labor, but he has only gratitude toward the company he worked for. “Prison’s prison—it’s supposed to be hard,” he says. Leaving prison each day to work felt “like going home.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
“Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc @ UNB; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; preorder *The End of College Football*: t.co/0C19WAmL6y
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