Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern-day form of slavery.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How disgusting. I wonder if Betsy DeVos is involved.
Perhaps an economic system the requires slavery or near slavery to function is not the best economic system on the planet?
Finally. 🙏🏾
Literally happened to my little brother's best friend. Spent his full time in prison despite being a model citizen, first offense, plea agreed on a charge he rightfully should have fought.
It's insane how the prison system meaningfully depresses wages in a way that immigration does not and conservatives completely support it
It boils my blood that California uses prisoners to help fight forest fires. They get full training, experience and skills, but once out of prison they can't get jobs as firefighters. These people are risking their lives and they can't get jobs after!
I should have known this was Alabama, between our new 1 billion dollar prison and our parole board that stopped giving parole…
Interesting number. I guess the state is nominally paying her 3/5ths of her wage. What an interesting fraction I wonder how they came up with that. Probably was the result of some political compromises in the past. Well, time to take a long sip of coffee and google "3/5ths compromise"
🙏🙏🙏 I hope the suit goes well, but I'm afraid that ultimately the system will refuse to let it advance because the system can't afford for it to advance.