• Rob1992@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Nah man, they’ll start using the prisons for more then menial labor. You don’t have to pay them at all

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      4 days ago

      But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?

      glances briefly to American history

      Oh right, shit.

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        4 days ago

        Slavery never ended in the US, it just got better PR.

        “Only prisoners can be sentenced to slave labor.”

        Makes a while bunch of stuff punishable by prison time and makes prison sentences longer.