But that work generally doesn’t get payed back to society, it goes towards enriching the for-profit prison owners, and enriching the businesses that use slave prisoner labor.
Non-violent offenses shouldn’t result in forced labor within a for-profit prison. That’s neo-slavery, with the prison owners motivated to change the laws to get as many people imprisoned as possible.
That’s why we have such a high prison rate, and that’s why such a disproportionate amount of prisoners are POC.
Slaves didn’t have a choice. Felons did.
Felons didn’t perpetuate the prison industrial complex. They didn’t perpetuate the laws that made the dumbest non-violent crimes imprisonment level offenses. The people who enrich themselves off of prison labor did.
Okay, so you are for forced labor on the hardened violent criminals, but lenient (no work) for the non-violent?
No. Forced labor should be abolished. I was merely using the fact that the majority of “felons who made their choices”, are people who have no place being there in the first place. The prison industrial complex lobbied the legislatures to make laws which increase the prison population as much as possible. The end result being many non-violent “criminal” offenses land you in jail and enslaved.
What should they all do in their free time?
Rehabilitation, learning trades, work, reading, whatever, it doesn’t matter. But none of it should be forced.
If you are talking about justice reform, that’s a different topic and I completely agree with you.
All of this is justice reform. You can’t have justice reform without acknowledging that slavery is wrong.
But that work generally doesn’t get payed back to society, it goes towards enriching the for-profit prison owners, and enriching the businesses that use
slaveprisoner labor.Overall, nearly three-fourths (72.1%) of federal prisoners are serving time for a non-violent offense and have no history of violence.
Non-violent offenses shouldn’t result in forced labor within a for-profit prison. That’s neo-slavery, with the prison owners motivated to change the laws to get as many people imprisoned as possible.
That’s why we have such a high prison rate, and that’s why such a disproportionate amount of prisoners are POC.
Felons didn’t perpetuate the prison industrial complex. They didn’t perpetuate the laws that made the dumbest non-violent crimes imprisonment level offenses. The people who enrich themselves off of prison labor did.
Okay, so you are for forced labor on the hardened violent criminals, but lenient (no work) for the non-violent?
What should they all do in their free time?
If you are talking about justice reform, that’s a different topic and I completely agree with you.
No. Forced labor should be abolished. I was merely using the fact that the majority of “felons who made their choices”, are people who have no place being there in the first place. The prison industrial complex lobbied the legislatures to make laws which increase the prison population as much as possible. The end result being many non-violent “criminal” offenses land you in jail and enslaved.
Rehabilitation, learning trades, work, reading, whatever, it doesn’t matter. But none of it should be forced.
All of this is justice reform. You can’t have justice reform without acknowledging that slavery is wrong.