Unpaid prison labor is wrong. End it now.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

These days you gotta run a prison if you want to own black men.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Or have a fat arse.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Blacks commit lots of crime. You will now proceed to blame it on poverty and oppression and pretend genetics aren't real.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Huh... I just said I wanted to run a prison.

[–]C3P0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem I have with this attempt to legitimize racism is that you have no proof that skin color causes crimes. Of course, there is a correlation (how do you think insurance companies get away with charging black people more?), but all humans are >99.999% the same genetically.

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Or you can just run a college athletics program.

[–]Druullus 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Paying back to society?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By destroying local businesses who can't compete because they have to actually pay their workers.

[–]Druullus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they should do something else?

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

What people are really against is the selling of prison labour.

When prisoners work in the kitchens or grounds unpaid no one cares. That still increases the company's profits because they don't have to pay staff wages.

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    [–]Drewski 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    There are so many crimes on the books that everyone breaks laws at some point. Those in power arbitrarily enforce laws against their opponents. You should check out the book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silverglate.

    Also, just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral, hiding Jews in Nazi Germany for example. In some cases, following the law is the immoral act.

    Finally, even if someone has done wrong it's not good for the state to have an incentive to lock people up for slave labor. Judges have been caught colluding with private prisons for profit. See: The School-to-Prison Pipeline.