Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill…
No you don’t. It is easy to be imprisoned while innocent, such as in the case of wrongful convictions from shoddy evidence, being framed for another person’s crime, or even having fake evidence planted specifically to get a conviction.
There are considerable amounts of people currently serving time for crimes they did not commit.
Not to mention all the people serving time for victimless crimes such as possessing marijuana or for committing criminal acts that wouldn’t be criminal in a sensible place, such as for insulting your country’s royal family.