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moriah

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5. Inmates are often given higher wages for those jobs...

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 03:03 AM

Aug 2018

... leaving the people with no outside support stuck in jobs to maintain the prison with barely enough commissary to buy necessary hygiene products.

Which group do you think is going to strike first -- the people scrubbing toilets for enough money to buy shampoo and tampons for the month, or the people making shit the prison sells so are able to not just get shampoo but also actual food compared to prison food?

I'd say the toilet-scrubbers. Either provide the necessities and make commissary truly about luxuries like a Hershey bar and cigarettes, or make sure all jobs in the prison are at the same pay.

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Wow!!! gopiscrap Aug 2018 #1

I will be honest and say that if its things like cleaning the prison or cstanleytech Aug 2018 #2

Inmates are often given higher wages for those jobs... moriah Aug 2018 #5

As a long-time ex-Federal inmate I support this strike. NBachers Aug 2018 #3

Unfortunately our constitution allows slavery whopis01 Aug 2018 #7

I hope they are successful. Since the private prison industry these places are really like slavery Maraya1969 Aug 2018 #4

I never understand this argument janterry Aug 2018 #9

You say the overcrowding of prisons has nothing to do with private prisons wanting to make Maraya1969 Aug 2018 #11

Oh, for sure they wanted to make a profit. janterry Aug 2018 #13

Documented and objective evidence, or merely one interpretation of what you witnessed? LanternWaste Aug 2018 #12

You bring up a good point janterry Aug 2018 #14

K&R Scurrilous Aug 2018 #6

Good. PatrickforO Aug 2018 #8

Prison labor is slave labor. Solidarity with incarcerated people. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2018 #10

K&R Solly Mack Aug 2018 #15

When the US has more prisoners... Spartacus101 Aug 2018 #16