former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison
babe, that's a current Southern slave plantation
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
188 points (98.5% liked)
News
22839 readers
3705 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
An outrage. I don't want prisoners in the US to make my food, just vulnerable immigrant populations kept perpetually at the edge of deportation, and subsistence foreign farmers victimized by a century and a half of gunpointed economic oppression with the full-throated support of the entire permitted US political spectrum.
Hey now, don't forget about factory farming in low income and minority areas!
Um don't forget all the child labor too! America is an equal opportunity shit show for all ages!
Slaves. These people are slaves.
The US competes only with China on how many prisoners we have in the world. And we blow every other nation on Earth away including China in per capita prisoners. Land of the "free," lol.
Who would have thought for profit prisons and legal slavery could cause such a thing?! Everyone. Everyone with 2+ brain cells to rub together, the politicians and lobbying companies knew exactly what they were doing in the 80s and 90s, they just didn't care about the ethics of it, only the profit projections.
There is no depth to the capitalist's depravity in pursuit of mooooaaaar profit. Don't let the expensive suits meant to imply refinement and civility fool you, they are single minded, insatiable beasts, ravenous for the taste of ~~blood~~ capital.
Absolutely sickening read. And to think so many of these companies are "double dipping" they get to use literal slave labor and get government subsidies all while raising prices for the everyday customer. Just shameful.
Would it be possible to have info on the product labels like "Lowest wage earned while making this product - $0.15/hr" or something along those lines?
I think prisoners make pennies per hour, but ICBW
That's just slavery with extra steps...