07-07-2024, 07:01 PM
AP just published a piece about prison labor in the US:
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-pla...4eadf08c4e
I really don't know how you have prison labor without also actually having slavery. It is, however, true that the federal Conservatives abolished farming for prisoners in 2009, but also that there was a reestablishment of the Penitentiary Farm program in 2019, and that there was an outcry about the abolition at the time.
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-pla...4eadf08c4e
I really don't know how you have prison labor without also actually having slavery. It is, however, true that the federal Conservatives abolished farming for prisoners in 2009, but also that there was a reestablishment of the Penitentiary Farm program in 2019, and that there was an outcry about the abolition at the time.