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Prisoners are slaves who do not have the same rights as other Americans
by calvinmorrison 4y ago
Prisoners are slaves who do not have the same rights as other Americans
- AaronM 4y agoNot all incarcerated people are prisoners though. Plenty of folks in jail are simply too poor to afford bonding out before their trial date.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoWell we can mince words, but functionally you are deprived of your freedom while being presumed innocent if the government decides it so.
- mcherm 4y agoPerhaps you have a different term besides "prisoner" to describe someone who is imprisoned before their trial rather than after. But the parent comment is correct: whatever you call them, these people are not afforded all of the rights that the rest of us have.
- c0m 4y agoAre you confusing the term 'prisoner' with 'criminal'? Prisoner is used to refer to people waiting for trial frequently, and dictionaries seem to support this definition.
- voakbasda 4y agoThis is the truth. The legal exception is literally carved out in the 13th amendment; the government reserved the right to make slaves of its prisoners.
- the_svd_doctor 4y agoLots of people in prison/jail are not convicted though, but merely awaiting trial. The 13th amendment only applies to "duly convicted" people.
- kashkhan 4y agoyep prison is an abomination. Needs to be defunded and outlawed.
- laserdancepony 4y agoAnd then we do what to uphold the rule of law?
- kashkhan 4y agowhat do you do now for the vast majority of crimes that go unpunished? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violent-and-property-crimes-in-the-u-s-go-unsolved/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violen... majority of crimes are not even reported to police and of those reported much less than half get solved