Post #27159
2025-12-03 18:24 UTC
American prisons are straight up slavery, no extra steps. It’s deliberate.
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@Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 18:47
Yeah, it’s explicit, too. It’s stated formally in the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution: en.wikipedia.org/…/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un… Also, the incarceration rate for black Americans is nearly five times higher than that of white Americans: theglobalstatistics.com/united-states-prison-race… Couple that with the image of a corrections officer overseeing farm labor from horseback (I wish I were joking), which includes, but is not limited to, actually picking cotton, and can see exactly what they’re trying to do. worthrises.org/…/prison-labor-in-agriculture-peop…