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> It's being downvoted because it's pushing a false narrative that it's only black people that are being incarcerated, Nobody is saying "only" black people are

> It's being downvoted because it's pushing a false narrative that it's only black people that are being incarcerated, Nobody is saying "only" black people are being incarcerated. They're saying that incarceration is used as a tool to perpetuate many of the same outcomes as slavery. Which is trivially verifiable, if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. > they're being incarcerated explicitly for cheap labor Virtually all prisoners are required to work for what amounts to as little as $.10/hour. $1/hour is considered an incredibly good wage for a prison job. Prisoners are, by design, excluded from minimum wage laws. This is not limited to private prisons; it includes inmates at state-run and federal prisons too. In California, about a third of the people fighting the recent and ongoing wildfires are prisoners, generally making about $1/hour or less. The maximum they can make is $2.56. Again, this burden largely falls on black and other non-white people, because they're incarcerated at much higher rates and for much longer sentences for the same crimes.

BearGoesChirp 9y ago
>if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES.
- chimeracoder 9y ago
  > Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES. There's plenty of research debunking this claim, which is a myth generally propagated by groups with explicit white supremacist agendas.
TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
> Which is trivially verifiable, if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. This assumes that incarceration rates should be equal for all races, which probably shouldn't be the case. There's a correlation between low socioeconomic status and incarceration. Black Americans tend to have a lower socioeconomic status. Murder rates are also much higher among blacks than other races in America. > Prisoners are, by design, excluded from minimum wage laws. Right. Prisoners are being exploited, but that's not why they're being imprisoned. They're being imprisoned because of drugs, violence, and thievery/burglary for the most part.

BearGoesChirp 9y ago

>if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES.

chimeracoder 9y ago
> Yet the theory breaks down once you look at a breakdown of race, gender, and SES. There's plenty of research debunking this claim, which is a myth generally propagated by groups with explicit white supremacist agendas.

TheAdamAndChe 9y ago

> Which is trivially verifiable, if you look at the respective incarceration rates by race. This assumes that incarceration rates should be equal for all races, which probably shouldn't be the case. There's a correlation between low socioeconomic status and incarceration. Black Americans tend to have a lower socioeconomic status. Murder rates are also much higher among blacks than other races in America. > Prisoners are, by design, excluded from minimum wage laws. Right. Prisoners are being exploited, but that's not why they're being imprisoned. They're being imprisoned because of drugs, violence, and thievery/burglary for the most part.