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> 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
by 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.