In Florida, many prisoners work with no pay as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration. "All of this is possible because of the exception of the 13th amendment that allows slavery to be used as criminal punishment even today.”

‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state

Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration

Every state I have worked in uses prison labor. Oregon has whole industries of slave labor. AIC (adult in custody) hand crews are working every fire in the state.

It’s beyond appalling. You can draw a straight line from the convict leasing system that was a backlash to Reconstruction to this.

It is an absolute obscenity.

Hehje