Shit, AITA that thinks inmates should be cleaning up trash on the side of roads?
Inmates actively DREAM of those jobs lol
Only people who have never had even a time out think work sucks when you are locked up
I hope IWOC-IWW can help organize around this bs. My first thought is sit down strikes. I feel like slave labor is particularly weak to that kind of action.
Counterpoint: solitary confinement sucks
Counter counter point. I love being alone.
I’m not trying to cover the point you’re actually making though.
You won’t after 48 hours with nothing to do and no one to talk to for 48 hours.
Try me.
Ok, go lock yourself in an empty closet for 48 hours with a bright light on the entire time and report back to us on how it goes!
deleted by creator
Solitary is not ‘being alone.’ Solitary is being trapped in a tiny room for 23 hours a day with no stimulation, the lights never turn off, and you may not even be given a bed or a blanket. Solitary is torture. People need to know that.
I know what solitary is. People are torture.
Well then enjoy them yelling at you through the air ducts because they’re desperate for human contact.
They can yell all they want after I’m dead.
Go back to Reddit
they can’t isolate every prisoner at the same time, and by engaging in a sit down strike, they can’t fill those spots with people afraid to fight back.
That reminds me of the words of Jews during the lead up to WWII. No one wanted to be the first to die, so they all died. It’s easy to say to sit down and protest when you’re free.
True they can’t throw everyone into solitary, but they can enact a lockdown which comes with its own particular cruelties and inequities
So they’re just going to lockdown everyone forever?
Doesn’t seem like a viable strategy to me.
its a prison. if they can’t do slave labor for a profit there’s no reason not to lock them down forever.
Hopefully America can figure out how to end slavery for good soon.
Sorry, best we can do is slavery with extra steps.
You are assuming that the US political establishment has ever really wanted to end slavery. It’s a very shaky assumption.
deleted by creator
What would they do to you if you refuse to work for free?
What would they do to you if you refuse to work for free?
Hello… it’s a prison?
Can you elaborate a little more?
It’s a prison… they can make you do whatever the hell they want.
No, they really can’t.
They shouldn’t but they can.
Not literally, no.
At least not without repercussion.
Throw you in solitary, which is torture.
Feed you nothing but nutraloaf, which is torture.
I’m sure they can come up with other ways to torture you for not doing what they say.
