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You can read the list of demands here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5cr546jlscgkhj/Prison%20Strike.pdf?dl=0
In short they're asking for congress to repeal 3 acts during a period where congress will only be in session 4 days and a whole bunch of intangible racial stuff.
You can read the list of demands here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5cr546jlscgkhj/Prison%20Strike.pdf?dl=0
In short they're asking for congress to repeal 3 acts during a period where congress will only be in session 4 days and a whole bunch of intangible racial stuff.
So sitting around 365 days doing nothing more than bitch and eat is work ?.
So sitting around 365 days doing nothing more than bitch and eat is work ?.
There are times where they can work and times where they are forced to work. See the 13th Amendment for reference on this.
There are times where they can work and times where they are forced to work. See the 13th Amendment for reference on this.
I knew someone who was in prison, no one is forced to work.
I knew someone who was in prison, no one is forced to work.
I knew someone who had an oven, the holocaust could never have happened.
Seriously, now.
Definition of forced labor: http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/news/WCMS_237569/lang--en/index.htm
Article 1: https://talkpoverty.org/2017/10/20/want-prison-feel-less-like-slavery-pay-inmates-work/
Article 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
I can post articles all day.
I knew someone who had an oven, the holocaust could never have happened.
Seriously, now.
Definition of forced labor: http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/news/WCMS_237569/lang--en/index.htm
Article 1: https://talkpoverty.org/2017/10/20/want-prison-feel-less-like-slavery-pay-inmates-work/
Article 2: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/17/us-private-prisons-forced-labour-detainees-modern-slavery
Article 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Article 4: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
I can post articles all day.
I really don't care about a prisoners quality of life. Honestly 3 meals a day is to much and the only thing their labor should earn them is a check mark in the good behavior box.
You don't get to fuck society over and then continue to fuck over my paycheck.