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for profit prisons and the slave labor they provide underly much of our food system
I thought the exploited labor in the food system was mostly immigrants, and the prison slave labor was mostly in factories these days rather than fields?
Not even just factories, inmates are basically farmed out to whatever company wants cheap slave labor to lower the bottom line. That includes fast food places, retail places, etc, not just what you’d think, like factory labor and farm work..
https://portside.org/2025-01-03/alabama-profits-prisoners-who-work-mcdonalds-deems-them-too-dangerous-parole
Firefighting too
it's both and it depends on where you are
This slave plantation from the 1800s is now a prison where new inmates pick cotton for a few years until the get a "better" job
Well yeah, Angola has been notorious for over a century.
I was under the impression that most other prison farms had been gotten rid of decades ago, though (e.g. the old Atlanta Prison Farm, which closed in '90, although we're still getting fucked over by its legacy because that's where Cop City got built). Apparently I'm mistaken, but it was the impression I had.