The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

  • @[email protected]
    48•6 months ago

    Well now this really makes for a trio of facts that paint a horrifying picture:

    • Private, for profit prisons exist
    • Prison slave labour is legal
    • Homelessness can now be made illegal

    Guess I should buy some stocks in companies that use prison labour.

    • @[email protected]English
      26•6 months ago

      https://marketrealist.com/p/companies-that-use-prison-labor/#what-are-some-companies-that-use-prison-labor

      • Verizon uses inmates to provide telecommunication services.
      • Fidelity Investments uses some held assets to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that promotes inmate work.
      • Kmart and JCPenney use inmate labor in Tennessee to make denim products.
      • Walmart uses prison labor to clean barcodes so products can be resold.
      • Some cheese and fish from Whole Foods comes from prison labor.
      • Circuit boards from IBM come from Texas prisoners.
      • Wendy’s and McDonald’s use prison labor to process beef for their food products.
      • Amazon uses BOP labor for cleaning and sorting damaged goods
        • @chiliedogg
          4•6 months ago

          Idaho only has prisoners, potatoes, and gun-totin’ white supremacists.

          What else are they gonna do?

      • Flying Squid
        3•6 months ago

        I thought Kmart went out of business?

        • Jojo, Lady of the West
          4•6 months ago

          Wikipedia states:

          Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.

          But also

          On January 22, 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the leadership of its then-chairman Charles Conaway and president Mark Schwartz.

          So they’ve been a subsidiary to several other companies since then.

          • Flying Squid
            2•6 months ago

            Ah, so they’re not quite dead yet, they’re just headed for a hedge fund buying them and killing them off.

    • @gedaliyahOPMEnglish
      4•6 months ago

      Anecdotes aside, prison stocks skyrocketed after Trump’s election. Anybody wonder why?

      • @root
        17•6 months ago

        The fact that prisons have stocks…

        • @scutiger
          9•6 months ago

          Back in my day, the stocks were kept in the public square.

      • @[email protected]
        6•6 months ago

        Because Hilary campaigned on banning private prisons which caused their stocks to collapse for a year until she lost.