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zeratul98 t1_j6uiic7 wrote

This is just so fucked.

We shouldn't be trying to get anything out of prisoners. Not money, not labor, and sure and fuck not organs. The more you treat these people as a resource, the more incentive there is to unnecessarily incarcerate people

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[deleted] OP t1_j6uj3cj wrote

Thirteenth Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Slavery is legal under certain certain circumstances.

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[deleted] OP t1_j6uxflh wrote

Yep. One of those awesome “constitutional rights” similar to the right to own an arsenal of assault weapons.

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