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Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies (x.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are many ways to gain your "compliance". Prisons must provide basic meals by law, but they can undercut the necessary calories and vitamins, so that if you're not buying food from the prison shop, you're likely to get sick (and eventually die). They can make your work status a factor in whether to grant you parole. They can transfer unwilling folk to the more dangerous units or prisons... So many easy options to gain compliance, if you don't care about human rights.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Cutting my food would just make it more akin to life now, so they won’t have much luck there. Getting parole I generally wouldn’t expect, but when facing a parole board I’d mention that being a slave falls under my own definition of cruel and unusual, so I refuse, and if that doesn’t sway them, I’m likely fucked regardless. Being transferred to a more dangerous unit would likely lead to death, but as I’ve said multiple times in this post, better dead than a slave. Overall, if my choices are slavery that likely ends in being maimed and then death, or not being a slave and then dying, I’ll take the latter any day of the week.