Leasing inmates
Leasing inmates
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
Most jobs are inside facilities, where the state’s inmates — who are disproportionately Black — can be sentenced to hard labor and forced to work for free doing everything from mopping floors to laundry. But more than 10,000 inmates have logged a combined 17 million work hours outside Alabama’s prison walls since 2018, for entities like city and county governments and businesses that range from major car-part manufacturers and meat-processing plants to distribution centers for major retailers like Walmart, the AP determined.
Mama Kamala's specialty.
Really de-incentivises paroling inmates when they're a source of revenue...
Yes, convict leasing was designed to be a direct replacement for slavery. It was used that way right after slavery ended when you could arrest a black person for anything you could think of. No job? Arrested, leased. No home? Arrested, leased. Etc....
Yep. And it’s perfectly legal, because the US never banned slavery.
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.
I think we’re one of the only countries in the world who still has legal slavery. Pretty awful.
And you know that small businesses and independent establishments aren't seeing one minute of that free prison labor under their roof. It's all going to large companies with connections to government.
I'm not arguing that either should benefit from effective slave labor, but the fact that the biggest players get this insane advantage just rubs extra salt in the wound.
"Safe enough to work" bruh half of them are probably there for parole violations for petty crimes 9 years ago
Wait, could I move to the US and rent a sexy inmate for my mansion? To parade in front of my geek friends? And play video games with?
(I mean I'd cruelly punish him of course, being in the US, like I wouldn't put any toppings on his ice cream, or something unusually painful, or whatever the law says you have to do).
America calling slavery slavery challenge impossible!
If you don't want slavery, then make it illegal. Maybe even make a constitutional amendment.
Alabama is a very cruel and inhumane place full of borderline retarded sociopaths. And stupid-ass rednecks and women who look like a 5 but think they're a 10. Mouth breathing morons in pickup trucks. A baptist church on every corner. Bojangles. Arresting people for smoking THCA that was legally bought from a gas station and charging them with marijuana possession and posting their mugshot all over the internet (happened to me). Cops who've known each other since kindergarten who peaked in high school and think at a third grade level. Hostility towards outsiders wrapped in a thin veneer of southern "hospitality". Backstabbing gossipy little bitches, men included, everywhere you look. Nobody means what they say. If they act nice to you, it means they don't like you. Many of them get off on taunting and tormenting other people. Football. Trees, lots of trees. There are diseases lurking you would expect to find in a developing country. The state is third world tier all around. The people are fundamentally malicious. Let's see what else.... Oh yeah they all look inbred as fuck.