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Literally written into the constitution
~~hidden workforce~~ hidden slavery
FTFY
hidden in plain sight slavery
FTFY
Slavery was never made fully illegal in the US. And if you vaguely define some crimes like “loitering” you can easily arrest people you disagree with.
The US is a prison nation.
If we have a civil war, that can change. I can't think of better recruits for soldiery and domestic, than those who have been wronged by the opposing force. It is a silver lining to the deterioration of the USA, if this evil can be dispelled for good.
It will never be defeated for good. Fascism is very profitable
Most of the US hates their neighbor/s, hence the strong anti-immigration push. That's beside the ingrained racism.
If a civil war breaks out, it'll be every man for himself or a loyalty pact based on color, origin, religion or geography like Afghanistan or Myanmar.
There won't be a "us vs them", it'll be "us vs all of the others".
But fantacizing about gravy seals is what ya'll do best.
The US constitution expressly and explicitly allows slavery if it's punishment for a crime. Read the 13th amendment if you don't believe me.
yes the USA is a slave colony empire and it always has been
Yeah, pretty much. https://www.unicor.gov/ if you want to find everything made that isn't food as well. It's a huge part of the industry.
I don't understand how this is so prevalent. Can a prisoner refuse, or just stand there without working? It's not like the twenty cents an hour or whatever they get is going to make their time much better. Or if their sentences get reduced for arbitrary menial work, that seems like a robbery of justice to victims. Is working in a sweatshop sort of deal so much better than reading books in a prison cell?
It's a scam, like everything in modern prisons. They intentionally underfeed prisoners, so that you have to buy extra food from the prison store, where it's overpriced but at least you'll get the calories and nutrients you need to stay healthy. Most prisoners don't have external income, so they are forced to work those prison jobs for pennies on the dollar.
And this is just one example of how prison administrators have intentionally set things up to fuck over prisoners as much as possible. In the U.S., it is sad but true that a large percent of the general public simply does not care, they think the prisoners "deserve it".
Oh, and those books you're talking about, do you think those come for free? Do you think you'll get them if you're on the guards' shit list because you're too lazy to work? That varies by location, but you can be sure that there's no guarantees of access to literature.
Depends on where you wind up. You usually get punished, but some places are worse than others about it.
The most common punishment for refusing to work is suspending "privileges" like the ability to buy from commissary or recreation like yard time or visiting the library. Remember that it's common for hygiene items to only be available for purchase from commissary, so by denying you commissary access, they're effectively saying you can't buy extra tampons if you refuse to work.
At worst, it can be a reason to put you in isolation, move you to a higher security prison, or deny you parole.
There is a reason the US has 20% of the world's prison population but only 5% of the actual world population. It is one of the many injustices thrust upon our society by the ruling class for their benefit.