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Leasing inmates (slrpnk.net)

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.

Most jobs are inside facilities, where the state’s inmates — who are disproportionately Black — can be sentenced to hard labor and forced to work for free doing everything from mopping floors to laundry. But more than 10,000 inmates have logged a combined 17 million work hours outside Alabama’s prison walls since 2018, for entities like city and county governments and businesses that range from major car-part manufacturers and meat-processing plants to distribution centers for major retailers like Walmart, the AP determined.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If by "more egalitarian" you mean "less blatantly racist", the sure.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing

And if you want to get more details, watch like any episodes of John Oliver.

America is not "the land of the equal".

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago
[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It was hard to tell the tone of your voice from a piece of text.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

"damned commies" probably could work as a clue though

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