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[FONT=TIActuBeta-ExBold_web]PRISON INMATES[/FONT] around the country have called for a series of strikes against forced labor, demanding reforms of parole systems and prison policies, as well as more humane living conditions, a reduced use of solitary confinement, and better health care.Inmates at up to five Texas prisons pledged to refuse to leave their cells today. The strike’s organizers remain anonymous but have circulated fliers listing a series of grievances and demands, and a letter articulating the reasons for the strike. The Texas strikers’ demands range from the specific, such as a “good-time” credit toward sentence reduction and an end to $100 medical co-pays, to the systemic, namely a drastic downsizing of the state’s incarcerated population.
“Texas’s prisoners are the slaves of today, and that slavery affects our society economically, morally and politically,” reads the five-page letter announcing the strike. “Beginning on April 4, 2016, all inmates around Texas will stop all labor in order to get the attention from politicians and Texas’s community alike.”
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Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
I'm sympathetic towards prisoners in some sense, but don't go all hyperbolic claiming they're slaves.
Technically they are.
Slavery is forbidden "except as punishment for crime".
Most prisoners when offered to work take it by their own free choice, know why, because they are given something to do to pass the time, often it is outside (a plus), they get a way to make a few bucks to buy things and it passes Time, something they want to do as quickly as possible. Take away all ability to do those things and then you Will see riots.Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: PRISONERS IN MULTIPLE STATES CALL FOR STRIKES TO PROTEST FORCED LABOR
Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
I would agree, except that generally, the reason they're there is of their own volition.
That doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated humanely, but I think it stretches it some to call it slavery.
They shouldn't be doing for profit work or even make office furniture or whatever for the state.
It incentivises putting more folks in jail and holding them longer.
There's a bad history of chain gangs, which WAS slavery.
Let them work in the kitchen, landscaping, etc. But with the understanding that the time is the punishment and compensate accordingly. Not minimum wage but a "real" amount of money that could be saved. This would make possible better return to society by teaching life skills.
One of the European countries has prisons where as prisoners near the end of their sentences they move them to facilities that have houses shared like a roommate situation. A little grocery store, other bills. So they live like normal people again for a while before getting out. Really really low recidivism rates.
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Prison labor has essentially become the "next best thing since slavery". Pay your laborers either nothing or as little as .17 cents and they make your goods for you. [/FONT][/COLOR]
Prison reform needs to happen in this country, period. There is really no good reason to make prison hell.
sure there is. prison is supposed to be hell.
why? it is to make you not go back.
Should someone suffer prison rape, because they got busted selling weed?
I don't think so.
sure there is. prison is supposed to be hell.
why? it is to make you not go back.
sure there is. prison is supposed to be hell.
why? it is to make you not go back.
both of which are illegal.
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