I like that they infringe so heavily on my privacy that they legally cannot display their site 😅
It’s strange to me that it loads without issue from Switzerland
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“It’s kind of nice for they [sic] because they feel like they feel like they’re giving back to the communities,” said Overseer Eddie Gilbert. “It gives them a sense of accomplishment and I enjoy it also. It kind of gets me out and about with my whip.”
“And the kickback from the “Charity” bought my wife a new car.”
Inmates plant, care for, and harvest the crops. Then, the fruits of their labor are donated to local food pantries.
Nobody appears to be profiting off their labor and there’s no mention it’s forced. So it looks to me like volunteer work going to charities. A productive use of time, prisoner or not.
I have a lot of problems with prison labor but this isn’t one of them.
If you think no one is getting a kickback from this, you’re naive.
We’ll have to take the oveeseer’s word that the inmates enjoy the work and are doing it voluntarily because no one bothered to interview any of them.
Stop equating chattel slavery to forced labor under the 13th
Easiest block ever.
Okay, so this is actually really interesting. It gets into how in the US, when we talk about slavery, we are specifically talking about chattel slavery as it was practiced in the Americas. And there’s actually a pretty strong argument that American chattel slavery is, if not unique in world history, it is more aberrant than other force labor systems throughout world history.
Absolutely mass incarceration, and the force labor system that goes along with it are incredibly distinct from American style chattel slavery, but this is because they’re arguably more in line with what slavery, distinct from chattel slavery, ‘usually’ meant. Basing a forced labor system off of race is more or less a modern phenomenon . There’s some nuance, but slave codes basically make up the core of available written records on the development of race as a cultural concept. [big ol’ FOR THE WEST label here]
