this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
32 points (97.1% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7175 readers
352 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
pangyuehung@lemmy.ml
yogthos@lemmy.ml
32
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (apnews.com)
submitted 8 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

slavery, its called slavery

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

The article did call it slavery