Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

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    6 months ago

    There are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they’re a problem.

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      And they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It’s absolutely an industry.

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        I know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee’s were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.