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I don’t think American prison labor qualifies as “jobs” since it doesn’t even pay close to minimum wage, which is a ridiculously low bar to begin with.
by nopenopenopeno 4y ago
I don’t think American prison labor qualifies as “jobs” since it doesn’t even pay close to minimum wage, which is a ridiculously low bar to begin with.
- feet 4y agoDoes that mean China is actually better then the US in this circumstance?
- DiggyJohnson 4y ago> better Do you mean to ask who pays their prisoners more for their labor?
- feet 4y agoYes, in the US prison slavery is legal and practiced
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoWhat is the fundamental different between incarceration and penal labor? How can you be so strongly against the latter and not the former? I would happy to see the abolition of penal labor, but the widespread attempt to cast it as “slavery” feels hyperbolic - especially in comparison to the reality of chattel slavery.
- feet 4y agoThey are literally forced to do unpaid labor. There are also prison jobs that do pay, but extremely low amounts and those are generally optional. Prisons do also offer volunteer work, it being voluntary makes it not slavery. Incarceration on the other hand is a different topic altogether and I think the US system is incredibly harmful and creates an environment that produces recidivism. The Nordic system of rehabilitation is far better.
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoThere is actually a pretty good subplot about this in Gone With The Wind. It’s slavery.