return2ozma@lemmy.world to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 9 days agoThe US is collapsinglemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1864
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minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 days agoMan…. The disconnect here Prisons are almost entirely run by prisoners. There are no “labor laws”
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·9 days ago Prisons are almost entirely run by prisoners. There are no “labor laws” That’s what they’re saying. If prisoners are to do manual labor, labor laws should apply, but that would require the USA to abolish slavery.
minus-squareJumpingspiderman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoNonsense. Of course abolishing prison slavery would be a good thing. But the alternative, should such involuntary servitude remain, would be to impose humane regulations on such labor.
Man…. The disconnect here
Prisons are almost entirely run by prisoners. There are no “labor laws”
That’s what they’re saying.
If prisoners are to do manual labor, labor laws should apply, but that would require the USA to abolish slavery.
Nonsense. Of course abolishing prison slavery would be a good thing. But the alternative, should such involuntary servitude remain, would be to impose humane regulations on such labor.