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These articles always cherrypick the most sympathetic cases. They never say, here's this triple murderer who never worked a day in his life, don't you feel sor
by narrator 3y ago
These articles always cherrypick the most sympathetic cases. They never say, here's this triple murderer who never worked a day in his life, don't you feel sorry for him? They also don't mention that prisons aren't free to run.
- tarxvf 3y agoIs it not a problem that there exist sympathetic cases at all? This is even before starting into the many innocent people in prison.
- aredox 3y agoPrison work as extensively done here is unconstitutional. Period. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/alabama-prisons-slavery-lawsuit-rcna129813 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/alabama-prisons-... https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/06/convict-leasing-system/ https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/06/convict-leasing-s...
- resolutebat 3y agoThe 13th Amendment abolishes slavery unless you're a convicted criminal. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- bilbo0s 3y agoNot to put too fine a point on it, but didn't you just cherry pick a case?
- smt88 3y agoAn exceedingly rare case, in fact.
- piva00 3y agoAnd why should it? If one sympathetic case is found by these articles it means there are many others, why should we care about the triple murder example you just conjured out of thin air? Prisons are not free, that's why it should be an incentive for a society to work towards not needing prisons, when the incentive is for prisons to be profitable (or at least cover their costs) you created a perverse incentive for the existence of prisons, for the punishment of crimes with prison time, etc.
- aredox 3y ago"They also don't mention that prisons aren't free to run" - Yeah, there is no way the system would put more people in prison to make more money (especially people no one cares about, black and/or poor).
- self_awareness 3y agoI don't think "the system" needs to put innocent people in jail in order to make a living. There are plenty of criminals to choose from. Also it's obvious that only poor criminals go to jail, black or not black. Rich criminals are busy running the world (also rich black criminals).
- wtcactus 3y agoBlack and/or poor criminals. The key word here is "criminals".
- iinnPP 3y agoExcept the rate of innocent people in prison is incredibly high. So no, they are not all criminals, many of them are, in fact, just SLAVES.
- wtcactus 3y agoNo, it's not. There are absolutely no real statistics that confirm what you claimed.
- dopidopHN 3y agoI’m about to get up, but DNA testing has demonstrated that a lot of people claiming to be innocent, had indeed not being present on the crime scene or that, indeed, a third person was also here.
- youngtaff 3y agoAnd things like the ‘war on drugs’ was created to target non-white people
- aredox 3y agoAre white murderers naturally more sympathetic? https://jp.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mississippi-pardons-idINTRE80J25K20120121/ https://jp.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mississippi-pardons-id...