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Why would you even show up for 0.18 cents? Could you have collectively gone on strike with the other prisoners? Would that have been held against you for senten
by p3rls 3y ago
Why would you even show up for 0.18 cents? Could you have collectively gone on strike with the other prisoners? Would that have been held against you for sentencing? I thought federal prison was the "nice" one. I'd imagine you could just write in a notebook and sell it as a blog/book after prison and do better but everything I know about that environment was learned from Tim Robbins in Shawshank.
- moralestapia 3y agoIt's forced labor, they don't have a choice.
- edgyquant 3y agoYes they do, I’m not aware of any prisons in the US where you have to do the work it’s just it looks good to a parole board.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoand if you don't you just get to sit in a box and stare at the wall all day.
- nickthegreek 3y agoYou not being aware of it doesn't mean it doesnt exist. > Five states – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas – force prisoners to work without pay. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loop...
- egberts1 3y agoGotta love those ignorant commentators. Absence of evidence never equates with a fact that none exist. Hence science is never final, just the facts.
- mchannon 3y agoIn the federal system, inmates are offered “GCT”, Good Conduct Time, where they get released from 15% of the sticker price time of their bid. It’s subject to revocation. That makes for a powerful carrot. Refusal to work is one of the prohibited acts an inmate can do (called a “shot”) to get it taken away.
- mchannon 3y agoI’ll dispense with the 18 cents vs. 0.18 cents lecture. Work stoppages can and have occurred, but the CO’s had sufficient expertise, staffing, and paid overtime to prevent anything newsworthy from happening. Generally unfair treatment or conditions were the cause of stoppages, none of which occurred during my tenure. Collective punishments for evidence of smuggled contraband (which was ubiquitous) were more common. Numerous jails I did time in transit (appx. 7 over 100 days) had worse conditions than the FPC I did the majority of my time in. The problem with Shawshank as applied to the modern day is that the newsman Andy sent the warden’s financials to no longer exists to receive it. There is no independent investigative media in the U.S. anymore and the likely outcome of the movie, set today, would have been the warden continuing to commit his atrocities, unencumbered by public scrutiny. I think a screenplay and movie will be the vehicle I tell this story with. Print isn’t exactly dead but movies are a more effective vehicle for change in this day and age.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoFeel free to reach out to me if you need anything at all at any time.
- mchannon 3y agoTried andrew@kemendo.com but it got bounced. Maybe you could ping me at my email address?
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoI gotchu - sent thanks