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Prison labor to cover children's lunch debt
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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And that's another day I am thankful to not live in the US. What a fucking shithole
The US, is the definition of: Polish a turd it's still a turd. By now though it's just dog shit.
What do they do with criminals in your country?
Criminals in jail don't do free work for capitalists in most countries.
They’re paid in the US
Approximately 4 to 75 cents per hour depending. Thats fucking slave labor. A single fucking sachet of ramen noodles requires between 9-12 hours of hard labor to purchase. I genuinely can't tell if you're being serious right now so I'll avoid ripping into you directly and attack what you said instead. That's the most asinine fucking bullshit I've had the displeasure of reading today and thats after reading about how Trump may start WWIII on Monday to protect his ego. "They're paid in the US" is the second dumbest fucking statement a relatively educated person could make aside from "I voted republican" and deserves to be absolutely fucking roasted just as hard.
African slaves in America were paid with room and board too, right?
Just like you. Paid to post.
So you're just simping for capitalism and enslavement for free?
Oh good. What multiple of the minimum wage?
They get put into prison to rehabilitate them, instead of just punishing them. They cannot be used as slaves, either.
Are you sure you linked the correct thing?
Yes. Slavery was abolished, except for people being punished for a crime: prisoners. That's why the private prison industry is so profitable.
Those are explicitly for low level crimes. Normally considered 'community work sentences', they're forced unpaid volunteer work in the community that you would have caused harm in. Graffiti or Vandalism for example might have you work with local volunteer groups who go around cleaning up graffiti or repairing broken windows. Basically cleaning up the very thing you caused.
"Inmates working for state-owned businesses earned between US$0.33 and US$1.41 per hour in 2017 – about twice the amount paid to inmates who work regular prison jobs."
I wouldn't exactly call that being paid. It's more of a pocket money situation.
Rehabilitation in prison is about education and giving people a perspective in life when they leave prison. Just making them suffer will not make them change their ways.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism
If they were paid $0.01 per hour, would you say they were being paid?
If yes, then clearly, "being paid" is not the dividing line between slavery and freedom, so you should establish how much you think someone should be paid for it to not be slavery.
By this logic, there were no slaves at any point in American history because all those people we brought over from Africa and bred into servitude were paid in food and shelter.
I really hope this is trolling.
Thanks for the help! That's very Elon of you.
I did not vote on a single message in this thread.
But yeah, the people migrating over here are getting edgier with their hot takes.
in that case please do go back to reddit
You're welcome.
Lmao, this place can just hold pieces of shit like you more accountable without you being able to cry to the Reddit mods/Admins that people are mean to you.
Maybe take your ass back to your Reddit echo chamber since you're just realizing normal people do no agree with your right wing bullshit.
I hope that means you fuck off back there, then.
What do you think the point of prison is, lmmfao?