• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      9 months ago

      It’s slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

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        9 months ago

        I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons

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      9 months ago

      Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

      The article did call it slavery

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    9 months ago

    They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods.

    Is there really no supermarkets in the US that have policies for modern day slavery?