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The US Runs on Sla-, oh excuse me, Rented Inmates. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So long as they are paid the same wage as non-prisoners. Anything else is slavery.

Yes, being incarcerated and working while being paid $0.50 an hour is STILL slavery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

At that sort of wage, the prisoners are doing it more for the opportunity to get out than for the money.

I'm not excusing it one way or another. I worked for a school which operated inside of a juvenile prison for a while and they had these work release programs.

The place I worked was actually rehabilitative, though, and gave the kids at least almost all of their earned money, and helped them get things like food handlers cards and useful experience for when they were released.

If only we could (would) do something like that for adults.