• kinther@lemmy.worldOP
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    That part was one of the biggest revelations to me. I had no idea Arizona had a for-profit jail system that is essentially pseudo-slavery.

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      It’s not pseudo-slavery, it’s actual 100% legal slavery according to the words of the 13th Amendment of the US constitution.

      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

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        Not all states use private prisons, and I don’t think all state prisons participate in forced labor (although they may all have ‘optional’ programs)

        The optional ones probably vary from truly optional, to we say it’s optional but you’ll be reprimanded somehow if you don’t.

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        Arkansas, California, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin do not use for profit prisons.

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          Guess how many of those prison services are contracted out to private companies though.

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          Yes but they still use what is effectively slave labor in those states as well, to make all kinds of stuff. Its only better in that they arent locked up for profit