The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
      3·
      2 年前

      It’s slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

      • clever_banana@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 年前

        I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons

    • clever_banana@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 年前

      Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

      The article did call it slavery

  • clever_banana@lemmy.today
    2·
    2 年前

    They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods.

    Is there really no supermarkets in the US that have policies for modern day slavery?