No it’s in every system Arizona has some particularly egregious behavior in one of its jails where slave labor is federally illegal but prisons across the country use slave labor. Often they do provide financial compensation but not enough to have a full stomach and regular communication with your family, but more to the point, the labor isn’t optional.
And yeah at times it’s been particularly egregious like after the civil war where one state built walls around a plantation and sent prisoners (often freedmen arrested on bullshit charges) to work it.
My attitude is no new prisons. No new space for prisoners. I fully endorse prison reform with those conditions. For every cell spot built, one must be rendered unusable and irreparable. Often prison reform is used to smuggle in new prisons with the old ones still operating same as always. I want them to be dens of rehabilitation but I don’t trust them to do that. The guards are just as evil as the criminals and we have way too many prisoners. No other country has the prisoners per capita we have. We don’t try to alleviate the material conditions that create crime. We don’t try to remove laws that hurt more than help. We don’t treat ex prisoners as people. And we don’t rehabilitate.
No it’s in every system Arizona has some particularly egregious behavior in one of its jails where slave labor is federally illegal but prisons across the country use slave labor. Often they do provide financial compensation but not enough to have a full stomach and regular communication with your family, but more to the point, the labor isn’t optional.
And yeah at times it’s been particularly egregious like after the civil war where one state built walls around a plantation and sent prisoners (often freedmen arrested on bullshit charges) to work it.
My attitude is no new prisons. No new space for prisoners. I fully endorse prison reform with those conditions. For every cell spot built, one must be rendered unusable and irreparable. Often prison reform is used to smuggle in new prisons with the old ones still operating same as always. I want them to be dens of rehabilitation but I don’t trust them to do that. The guards are just as evil as the criminals and we have way too many prisoners. No other country has the prisoners per capita we have. We don’t try to alleviate the material conditions that create crime. We don’t try to remove laws that hurt more than help. We don’t treat ex prisoners as people. And we don’t rehabilitate.