Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings into compost, his right leg got pulled into a chute with a large spiraling augur.
“I could hear ‘crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch,’” Sanchez said. “I couldn’t feel anything, but I could hear the crunch.”
He recalled frantically clawing through mounds of manure to tie a tourniquet around his bleeding limb. He then waited for what felt like hours while rescuers struggled to free him so he could be airlifted to a hospital. His leg was amputated below the knee.
Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of prisoners are put to work every year, some of whom are seriously injured or killed after being given dangerous jobs with little or no training, The Associated Press found. They include prisoners fighting wildfires, operating heavy machinery or working on industrial-sized farms and meat-processing plants tied to the supply chains of leading brands. These men and women are part of a labor system that – often by design – largely denies them basic rights and protections guaranteed to other American workers.
Slavery never ended. A carveout for slavery is still legal slavery. We haven’t ended slavery in America at all, just changed the legal method of obtaining a slave and making it so only corporations get to have slaves.
We’re such a fucking disgusting sorry excuse for a country.
(For those “JuSt LeAvE tHeN” I wish I could, but any country worth a damn has strict immigration requirement$ I don’t meet…)
i wonder which other countries do the same?
looks like its poland, brazil, rwanda, belarus, vietnam, egypt, myanmar, mongolia, china, mali, zimbabwe, turkmenistan, russia, libya, eritrea, north korea.
Kinda like the Imperial measurement system, if you are being compared to Myanmar then perhaps stop?
Sound like those are also shitty countries that still have legal slavery that needs to end… :/
Weird that you left off France, the UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Korea.
The difference is that in these countries prisoners only have to work for the prison itself, doing stuff like cleaning, washing dishes, etc. They can work for a private company if they wish, but that’s not required.
Hard labor an increasing punishment for poor people unable to pay fines
Worked to death but its okay because the prison itself profits.
The Arkansas Governor’s mansion was staffed by prison inmates for over a century. A lot of the post-80s privatization has resulted in convicts becoming corporate chattle. But for a long while we had a more traditional fascist take of public sector slave labor.
There’s a reason the average black male spends 1/3 of their life in prison in America.
And then has the right to vote taken away when they get out…
This is so obviously bullshit, but I looked it up anyways. The closest source I could find was this page which claims a black male born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison.
So yea. Don’t lie, it discredits your cause.
Lol it’s a lyric from dead prez, wouldn’t get bent out of shape about it. Literally written in 2000 - I can’t even find stats that old 🤷
Way to spin it when called out for your lying.
https://genius.com/Dead-prez-police-state-lyrics
[Chorus: stic.man] The average Black male Live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the world is controlled by the white male And the people don’t never get justice…
first ddg result
It’s the new 2/3 compromise.
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