In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola
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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Slaves. They’re slaves.
Section 1 of the 13th amendment.
What a farce.
Here, you see exactly why we don’t seen release of petty drug possession prisoners, just as few as possible to be performative.
For-profit prisons shouldn’t exist.
Why is it so hard for these fucking journalists to call things for what they are?
because they dont want to badmouth the system too much