Working on California's incarcerated fire crews: "It is kind of like you’re a slave"
Working on California's incarcerated fire crews: "It is kind of like you’re a slave"
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Working on California's incarcerated fire crews: "It is kind of like you’re a slave"
Some 1,100 prison recruits are battling LA's infernos, risking life and health for less than $2 an hour—yet still the jobs are coveted.
It's not kinda like slavery. It's just slavery. No extra steps. No flavor text. It's just slavery.
It’s VOLUNTARY. It’s not slavery. No one is making them do this. They also get paid (though not enough). They also get reduced sentences. In California they also may get their record expunged. Read the article.
Incorrect. Read this instead: https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
Do you know what you call someone that gets punished if they don't work? It's not volunteer.
Indentured servitude was voluntary. Im sure if you were alive before we considered that slavery you'd be an apologist for that form of slavery as well.
They can sit in a cell or they can be rented as property and get to go outside.
That's not exactly a choice, you can do nothing or something, and you should be grateful for the something even if it's slavery.
What a horrible worldview.
Slavery apologists on lemmy.
Shouldn't you be on reddit?