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If they are NOT being paid and are NOT allowed to refuse to work, are they really prisoners?
Or are they slaves?
Who is benefiting from this slave labor? Where does the money go?
https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/
#Prison #Prisons #SlaveLabor #Labor #Union #Texas #USA #News
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Well, yes, prison labor is slave labor. We never abolished slavery.
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Indeed.
When the south lost the Civil War, they just moved slavery from the plantation to the prison.
@ZhiZhu @TruthSandwich @TexasObserver. That’s exactly right — per the article: “In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery — except as punishment for a crime. This legally permits Texas to force the incarcerated, including more than 40,000 people convicted of nonviolent crimes, to work for no pay under threat of punishment. Texas is one of only seven states that takes advantage of this free forced labor.”
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The North won the Civil Battle but lost the Civil War.
The secession was aborted, but the slavers just changed the legal pretext for slavery, perpetuating it under Jim Crow.
And now they control the RNC, turning it into the party of white supremacy.
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