• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Chattel slavery. Penal Slavery is still legal and targets mostly racial minorities.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s super important to really understand how fucked penal slavery and convict leasing is. When you think of American slavery you think of people working in a field and that it stopped with the civil war. It absolutely didn’t. They forced prisoners to work the fields after that.

      • katharta@lemmy.sdf.org
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        20 hours ago

        California of all states voting to keep prison slavery legal in 2024 is how I know deep down inside we are truly well good and fucked.

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          14 hours ago

          probably need all those prisons to work for next to none to fight fires, or do govt work that nobody wants to work.