Apparently paying inmates minimum wage is a bridge too far for us. -_-
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California constitutional amendment to ban forced labor (including prison labor) fails in the senate
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Guys, don't worry, they're in prison so obviously they must deserve it and so slavery is cool. Please ignore the fact that a bunch of things people go to jail for are bullshit and the racial biases inherent to our justice system that make certain people (read: minorities) way more likely to go to jail over smaller offenses or even get sentenced when they're innocent. Pay no attention to the monsters behind the curtain
Including prison labor, hahahaha that was never passing, American's prison slave labor is legal slavery...
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Yes. You would need about a million signatures to get a referendum on a constitutional amendment in California onto the ballot.
Ok then besides more climate change stuff I say this goes to the top of the list. If the government won't change it then the people should.
California is more progressive than a good portion of other states but I don't know if this would pass honestly. We're not THAT progressive.
Even regular people who are pretty liberal are more than fine with this shit sadly, went on a date with a girl like this last summer who is totally against paying them anything and it was reaaaaaal yikes moment.
It's weird to think that slavery is still very much alive in America in the present. Regardless of the crime, "criminals" are inherently not viewed too favourably by the public; they "deserve it" to a lot of people. Makes it so much easier to turn a blind eye to them being used for what's effectively slave labour.
Another in a long list of reasons that no nation should be extraditing anyone to the usa, I don't care what reason the usa wants someone, no one should be sent there when the usa prison system is a known source for many daily human rights violations. This shit is absolutely fucked up and the amount of Americans who find it totally acceptable has always been awful.
If there were a national referendum on slavery, and the biggest story was that re-instating slavery would raise most free people's pay checks, I wonder how the country would vote.
Homelessness state capital of the USA throwing the less fortunate and massive minority populations into a slave labor designed machine is working as intended…
Even if they didn't, making a fiscal argument to uphold slavery is kind of a bad look…. But only kinda /s
They just show the true nature of the dems. Some of the worst housing, huge percentages of houseless people and some of the most regressive and authoritarian police forces in the world.
Yes of course, I was just mentioning it as it wouldn't put any fiscal strain on the state as it is.
I'm not surprised.
Work should be optional and those who are incarcerated should be paid minimum wage at least.
States usually do stuff like put you in solitary or take away privileges. You'd be denied parole too.
Work should be optional and those who are incarcerated should be paid minimum wage at least.
States usually do stuff like put you in solitary or take away privileges. You'd be denied parole too.
This.
The American prison system is abhorrent and no extraditions should be legal.
Do they have to see the slaves working? No, then you probably won't like the nswer
Truth. They're very illuminating examples of the difference between liberal and leftist.
The irony, of course, is that some Americans are so far right that they view California as this extremely left-wing la la land, for just not being (as much of) a batshit god-and-guns theocracy.
California passed a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as late as 2008, but the people who like to point to California as some sort of left-wing dystopia don't seem to remember that.
Gavin Newsom needs to be reminded that indentured servitude and forced labor are forms of slavery. Just because the people aren't treated like chattel doesn't mean it isn't slavery.
I hope people start calling him a slave owner since these are state prisons and their his forced servants.
I hope people start calling him a slave owner since these are state prisons and their his forced servants.
Doesn't mean that we shouldn't try! Gotta move that Overton window, even if only bit by bit ;)
They changed that a few years ago.
California Bill Clears Path For Ex-Inmates To Become Firefighters
"Inmates who have stood on the frontlines, battling historic fires should not be denied the right to later become a professional firefighter," Gov. Gavin Newsom said upon signing the bill on Friday.
www.npr.org
Oh good!They changed that a few years ago.
California Bill Clears Path For Ex-Inmates To Become Firefighters
"Inmates who have stood on the frontlines, battling historic fires should not be denied the right to later become a professional firefighter," Gov. Gavin Newsom said upon signing the bill on Friday.