news Alabama profits from leasing prison labor, denies inmates parole

[Virgos Groove]

 

The American prison system is dystopian. 

[HeavyMetalAura]

Modern slavery. I don't know why more people don't talk about this. It's barbaric.

[Bloo]

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THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT 

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It’s literally just slavery. We need to stop pretending slavery was fully abolished when the constitution clearly says otherwise. It’s also no coincidence that incarceration of Black people is disproportionately high when this is the constitutional standard. 

[Reginald]

Just like others said, this is modern slavery. Some of the historical pictures in the article were really chilling