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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 08:53 AM Original message |
States aren't eliminating the jobs being done by public workers, they're giving them to prisoners |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. In SC, they are doing trash pickup. At least in one area I know of. nt |
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bluetex (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I like it.... |
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Fuddnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It also replaces a families income with slave labor. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Exactly! And compare that with a unionized worker in NYC picking up trash, |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Which reduces tax income which increases everybody's share of taxes that need to be paid. (nt) |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. The new slaves |
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bluetex (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Slaves? |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yeah, it's awesome for them. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. A few more like this post |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. It also give MORE incentives to imprision MORE people |
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xphile (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. How does slavery build self worth and self esteem? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 03:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. picking up garbage under coercion builds self-esteem? who knew? |
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catbyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. I wonder who the first corp will be to use prisoners to manufacture |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It happens already. Our states and federal government are set up to outsource jobs to the prison |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Ahhhhh you do know that Michigan prisons already have programs in place that |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I know Dell... |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. Slave labor |
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babydollhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
11. THIS is why "no pictures allowed to be taken of Farms" |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
12. Given the disparity in sentencing |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-24-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
13. I have been saying for several years that |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. This is even more of a win for them. |
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