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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Other States Banned Forced Prison Labor. Why Didn’t California?

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Other States Banned Forced Prison Labor. Why Didn’t California?

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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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The liberal state voted to keep prison slavery in its constitution, but the national movement to ban it isn’t deterred.
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    Spoiler: Piles and Piles of Money

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    I don’t think the journalist even made a serious attempt at answering the question that the copy editor injected into the headline.

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    Racist and fascist cruelty.

    Maybe it’s lib of me, but that was the only real big shocker of election night to me. I really didn’t expect that. That state deserves to plunge into the Pacific to put out its apocalyptic fires.

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    Eric Adams loves this one simple trick

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    The people may be liberal, but the politicians are not. They like to pretend to be, but we have no left wing party in the US. We have a right wing party that’s oligarch in nature, and another right wing party that theocratic in nature.

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    because california is a progressive state–it lives in the future

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    Couldn’t find it in the article… Anyone have a list of states that have banned it handy?

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      I don’t see one readily available, I know Colorado banned it off the top of my head

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

      this provides some additional context, but also not a complete list

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    Is this a rhetorical question?

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