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.
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.
The article doesn’t go into much detail about the breakdown of those punishments. That second category, “denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence,” doesn’t sound like punishment. The opportunity to reduce their sentence is doing the work. I’m worried that’s being used to pad the 76% stat.
They have the opportunities, then the opportunities are taken away. That’s punishment. The opportunities the ACLU mentions are not the same as the reductions that are promised to workers.
Exactly what percentage would make using denial of family visits acceptable to you? Solitary confinement?
If you’re actually interested in the information and not just trying to justify being a dick, here’s the ~150 page report that I pulled the quote from https://www.aclu.org/publications/captive-labor-exploitation-incarcerated-workers
Please read it, follow the citations to the documents where the statistics come from, and let us know the breakdown of the statistics that make slavery justifiable for you.
Imagine responding to someone’s concern without flipping your shit at them.
If you were concerned about the people and not the statistics, which you bothered to cast doubt on but didn’t bother to actually look anything up, I might take you seriously.
Anyone come at me defending slavery I will flip my shit.