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California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing
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Yes, this is unconstitutional,and the constitutional kind is immoral.
I brought up convict leasing because charges were often made up or people were convicted of violations like not having a job. Essentially if you were black in the south you could be arrested and re-enslaved at any time. Not that far off from what we're witnessing here. Trials were a formality and the laws were unjust to begin with.