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The choice for the prisoners is making $4.50 a day or sitting in their cell doing nothing to improve their life. Don’t act like this isn’t still exploitive to t
by dsomers 5y ago
The choice for the prisoners is making $4.50 a day or sitting in their cell doing nothing to improve their life. Don’t act like this isn’t still exploitive to the point of it obviously being a false sense of choice —- especially with the BS that America will lock people up for. If a 14 year old kid in Alabama gets caught with a joint isn’t it convenient that the corporations in the state suddenly have access to a fresh new indentured servant — quite a nice replacement for slavery you guys have worked out for yourselves. If you want to see how civilized countries rehabilitate people see how prisons in Norway are run.
- refurb 5y agoYes, Alabama prisons are full of 14 years convicted of marijuana possession.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoAlabama prisons are a crime against humanity. https://eji.org/news/what-you-need-know-about-alabama-prison-crisis/ https://eji.org/news/what-you-need-know-about-alabama-prison...
- refurb 5y agoNothing in your link about 14 year olds in prison for marijuana possession.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoInstead of that exact case, how about 3278 non violent offenders serving life without parole? https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole-nonviolent-offenses https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole...
- refurb 5y agoNot that I agree with the sentences, but I always find these arguments a bit weak - “life without parole for drug possession”. Well, they didn’t get life without parole for that conviction alone, it was that plus the other felonies they committed.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoRead the pdf front to back and get back to me.
- refurb 5y agoI won’t get all the answers as that pdf is clearly leaving things out.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoWhat things, and how are you so certain?