#convictlabor — Public Fediverse posts

@theguardian_us_news

Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters

Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters

LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/how-you-can-help-the-incarcerated-firefighters-battling-l-a-wildfires

Pasadena Altadena & Octavia Butler
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/palisades_fires

#California #wildfires #LosAngeles #Palisades #Altadena #incarceratedworkers #convictlabor
#the13th

@igd_news

“ The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office."

https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires

#LosAngeles #wildfires #convictlabor
#incarceratedworkers

Capos always keen to “reduce the cost of labor” - $1 a day prison labourers
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/forced-prison-labor-slavery-election

Privatised detention centres exploiting Immigrants
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/settlement-forced-labor-case-against-private-prison-company-operating-immigration

#CoreCivic #13thAmendment #ForcedLabor #Convictlabor #Capitalism

#ConvictLabor is and has always been about reinstating slavery.

#NeoFeudalism is coming. What are we going to do about it?

“Truth in sentencing, tough on crime & ‘three strikes’ a trifecta that reduces the cost of labour for capos & boosts private prison profits per inmate per day“ - Lora Norda CEO

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/private-prisons-sentencing-law-lobbying

“ In 2021, over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system,[2][3] with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

#Privatisation #prisons #CoreCivic #Tennessee #convictlabor
#Capitalism

Convict labor was “…perfectly legal, since the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, made one very consequential exception: ’Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.’”

“Convict leasing is the missing link between slavery…and the disparate impact of the criminal justice system on African Americans today.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sugar-land-slave-convict-labor-history/
#Juneteenth #Slavery #ConvictLabor

https://archive.org/details/familysearch-and-prisons

FamilySearch and prisons by Burkely Herrmann

Topics
#FamilySearch, #genealogy, #genealogywebsites, #prisonlabor, #contractlabor, #incarceratedlabor, #idaho, #utah, #washington, #unitedstatesofamerika, #washingtonstate, #cachecounty, #duchesnecounty, #idahodepartmentofcorrections, #summitcounty, #kanecounty, #washingtondepartmentofcorrections, #familytrees, #churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, #mormons, #mormoncorridor, #convictlabor, #inmatelabor, #prisons, #jails, #incarceration, #recordsindexing, #archivallabor, #archives

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