The largest jail strike in American history and it's being ignored by the media.
All the want is fair pay as promised under the 13th amendment.
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I’ve got a great idea. Maybe they could not break the law, that would certainly help them with the fair pay. Everything else on their list of demands should absolutely be provided, but a living wage for people who broke the law, and by the way have no housing, transportation, food, or any costs, is bullshit.
And honestly, if they had to be paid, how much would corrections become a financial burden on the government? How soon until prison privatization became the norm? Like that will make things any better.
I advocate the chair. Give em all the chair.
This was my favorite part:
NUTRITIONAL MEALS: Vegetables and fruit are in short supply in DOC facilities while starches and fatty foods are plentiful.
Umm, how about that sounds AWESOME.
Hey Ev, what about the people who didn’t break the law? What about those wrongfully incarcerated or on bullshit drug charges that shouldn’t be illegal to begin with? Are you seriously, honestly advocating fucking prisoner labor? Have you really thought about your position, here?
If they didn’t break the law then the system has failed, but that inevitably happens in our (and every) justice system. You’ll hear no argument from me about drug charges being bullshit, but for the time being, they’re still against the law. You’re talking about an injustice in enforcement and prosecution. The two ideas are not relevant to each other in this case, unless you plan on setting up some sort of tiered system of incarceration for different levels of punishment.
And yes, why not prisoner labor? They have a debt to society, are we going to treat them like children and make them sit in the corner and think about what they did, or should they be made to pay it back.
It makes sense economically, they are removed from society at large and yet are less of a financial burden. It makes sense that they be given something to do, rather than sit idle. And it makes sense that the prison system should be at least somewhat self sustaining. I’m not proposing gulags here, you can still have all your OSHA protections. But if anything, they are being paid, with food, shelter, whatever creature comforts may be afforded where they are (which I find to be bullshit in some cases), whatever rehabilitation/education/job training they may receive (a perfectly reasonable demand of theirs, and key to lowering recidivism), and a valuable lesson about obeying the law.
vick broke the law… but as long as he can throw a football…
And he went to jail for 2 years. What’s your point?