An ongoing lawsuit against the state alleges corrections officials engaged in slavery or involuntary servitude in its prisons by retaliating against people who declined to perform labor inside prisons.
Kudos to the author for aptly describing it as slavery instead of using ‘indentured servitude’, ‘mandatory employment’, or some other milquetoast descriptor.
There was a story in the local news the other day about how county prisoners were growing food for food banks and it was reported like it was a good thing. Slaves growing food so private charities can give them to the poor as a good thing.
Kudos to the author for aptly describing it as slavery instead of using ‘indentured servitude’, ‘mandatory employment’, or some other milquetoast descriptor.
There was a story in the local news the other day about how county prisoners were growing food for food banks and it was reported like it was a good thing. Slaves growing food so private charities can give them to the poor as a good thing.