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daredtowork

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8. Prison Labor = The New Slavery

Reply to Dont call me Shirley (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 04:30 PM

Jan 2015

I hate to say it, but someone needs to be holding a microscope to what happened in California, too - even without the debt-trap step.

It seems obvious to me that a large portion of the population was removed from "The Welfare State", placed in behaviorally controlled conditions, and trapped into forced labor for pennies.

If you think about it, California could have taken the money it spends on prison and simply used it to create opportunities for these people to support themselves independently. How many would have taken that option rather than turning to crime?

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AWESOME NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #1

It's about time Tsiyu Jan 2015 #2

Kansas is awarding high child support payments to non-custodial low income parents. Then when Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #3

Try writing them. merrily Jan 2015 #4

We have. No reply as of yet. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #5

Good for you. Best wishes. merrily Jan 2015 #6

Prison Labor = The New Slavery daredtowork Jan 2015 #8

The us is the new slave colony of the plutocracy. They stole our democracy and enslaved us. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #9

Everything is a crime UNLESS you can afford to buy crime. nt valerief Jan 2015 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Adam051188 Jan 2015 #10

About the only thing missing in our prisons is an 'Arbeit macht Frei' sign over the entrance Scalded Nun Jan 2015 #11

My son is in the same boat KauaiK Jan 2015 #12