stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agoProsecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarketlockapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square235linkfedilinkarrow-up1577arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1567arrow-down1external-linkProsecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarketlockapnews.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square235linkfedilinkfile-text
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
minus-squareIm_old@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·2 years agoThat’s not how the prison industry works. There’s no money in fixing people if you can use them as unpaid labour.
minus-squareBigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years ago“prison industry” - I like that
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoThere are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they’re a problem.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 years agoAnd they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It’s absolutely an industry.
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoI know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee’s were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI write about what can be done before the bloodshed and the prison sentence. But yeah, the next logical step is to look into these fuckers too.
That’s not how the prison industry works. There’s no money in fixing people if you can use them as unpaid labour.
“prison industry” - I like that
There are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they’re a problem.
And they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It’s absolutely an industry.
I know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee’s were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.
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I write about what can be done before the bloodshed and the prison sentence. But yeah, the next logical step is to look into these fuckers too.