Some 1,100 prison recruits are battling LA’s infernos, risking life and health for less than $2 an hour—yet still the jobs are coveted.
It’s not kinda like slavery. It’s just slavery. No extra steps. No flavor text. It’s just slavery.
It’s VOLUNTARY. It’s not slavery. No one is making them do this. They also get paid (though not enough). They also get reduced sentences. In California they also may get their record expunged. Read the article.
Indentured servitude was voluntary. Im sure if you were alive before we considered that slavery you’d be an apologist for that form of slavery as well.
They can sit in a cell or they can be rented as property and get to go outside.
That’s not exactly a choice, you can do nothing or something, and you should be grateful for the something even if it’s slavery.
What a horrible worldview.
Incorrect. Read this instead: https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
Today, more than 76 percent of incarcerated workers surveyed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics say that they are required to work or face additional punishment such as solitary confinement, denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence, and loss of family visitation.
Do you know what you call someone that gets punished if they don’t work? It’s not volunteer.
The article doesn’t go into much detail about the breakdown of those punishments. That second category, “denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence,” doesn’t sound like punishment. The opportunity to reduce their sentence is doing the work. I’m worried that’s being used to pad the 76% stat.
Each one of them gets a fully paid-off house valued at one million dollars for their service, paid for by fossil fuel profits.
Slavery is never moral, but is still legal in the US.
Many US companies use slave labor to undercut the wages paid to free citizens.
