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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor (futurism.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So coincidental that the US has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, one that just happens to skew heavily non-white. Land of the free indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Damn. They had to reserve the darkest color solely for the USA ... and El Salvador.

[–] gagcar@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, it’s not a secret. That’s what the clause was almost explicitly for. Slaves freed, vagrancy or similar becomes a crime, former slaves become prisoners because people won’t give them jobs so they don’t live in a house (also at the judgement of legal/judicial officials as to what counted as housed), many go back to the same plantations/workhouses they were already at.

It didn’t slip through, it’s not a conspiracy theory, and it isn’t the quiet part being said out loud. It was always loud.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes...? your tone sounds argumentative, but I'm not sure if you meant to come off that way. I wasn't trying to imply that it is secret knowledge, just regular knowledge that not everyone knows about.

[–] gagcar@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

I was more frustrated that more people DON’T know this about our history.