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Someone - let alone a private corporation - telling you where you are allowed to live, what you are allowed to eat, and what you will do with your labor every d
by kevingadd 4y ago
Someone - let alone a private corporation - telling you where you are allowed to live, what you are allowed to eat, and what you will do with your labor every day - is not comparable to living as a free man even if you still need to work to pay rent. It is just not remotely comparable. Then you get into US incarceration's history being tangled up with slavery and it looks even worse.
- surement 4y ago> Someone - let alone a private corporation - telling you where you are allowed to live, what you are allowed to eat, and what you will do with your labor every day - is not comparable to living as a free man even if you still need to work to pay rent. At what point do you think being in prison should differ from being free then?
- dolni 4y agoIn the model I imagine, the prison is not necessarily involved in dictating what jobs there are. There may be _some_ jobs where you work for "the prison" (janitorial stuff, or a cook). But there are plenty of other things prisoners could do if reasonable accommodations were made. Making widgets, for example. Also, taking the "prisoners must work" piece out of the equation doesn't really solve any of those problems.