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  1. Peter Riley @[email protected] ·

    #Prisonlabor is legal in the United States due to a loophole in the #13thAmendment of the U.S. Constitution, which banned #slavery, except for people convicted of crimes.

    apnews.com/article/prisons-lab

    #prisonlabor #13thamendment #slavery
  2. Peter Riley @[email protected] ·

    Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
    inthesetimes.com/article/alaba

    Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
    Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
    #FightLikeHell book cover

    #alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
    #inthesetimes #kimKelly

    #meatpackers #alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #inthesetimes
  3. Prisonwatch @[email protected] ·

    Prison Jobs: Working Hard, Hardly Paid

    "So when you go back to society, you have a disadvantage in the things that are available to you, but yet you're spending all these years in prison using your labor, and that labor is not being used to help prepare you for the society you're going back to."

    kalw.org/podcast/uncuffed/2024

    #prison #California #prisonlabor #13thAmendment

    #13thamendment #prisonlabor #california #prison