#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

Capitalists always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/mcdonalds-slaves-caxton-fast-food

Convict labour cheapest?
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-food

McD’s Stress Biz Mode
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/fast-food-stress-business-model

#fastfoodworkers #Capitalism #minimumwage #workingpoor #exploitation #caxton #Alabama #convictlabor

#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

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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