Alabama voters banned prison slavery — but prisoners say it hasn’t stopped As a lawsuit from incarcerated workers tries to stop a forced prison labor program, a beer distributor is defending its own participation www.whatimreading.net/p/alabama-vo... - ThreadSky

phillewis.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Alabama voters banned prison slavery — but prisoners say it hasn’t stopped

As a lawsuit from incarcerated workers tries to stop a forced prison labor program, a beer distributor is defending its own participation https://www.whatimreading.net/p/alabama-voters-banned-prison-slavery-hasnt-stopped

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nwelp.bsky.social•3 days ago

They admit it in their legal briefs??? Really bad move by lawyers

jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seemingly. In a world where laws are actually enforced and crimes by corporations have consequences

Oh amabalA has multiple cases of prisoners being exploited in a variety of industries

mnasca.bsky.social•3 days ago

Alabama exploits incarcerated folks in what can certainly be described as modern slavery. Even though the inmates have to have exemplary records to qualify for the program, they seem to always be denied parole too.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

blackshagreen.bsky.social•3 days ago

If they can safely interact with the public it would seem they would be safe on parole. It's not like they can't take em back if they go sideways...

mnasca.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly. And yet they never seem to qualify for parole and keep being shipped off to employers who pay the state.

randompersonfire.bsky.social•2 days ago

Does AB InBev know about this at all?

caesarmmxv.bsky.social•3 days ago

On one hand, they shouldn't have committed the murder, rape, whatever crime they committed to get there. Fuck around and find out. On the other hand, slavery is evil, the men that commit slavery are evil. Those who have the power to stop slavery and do nothing are the same as those who enslave

caesarmmxv.bsky.social•3 days ago

What kind of slavery are we talking? Are they in buildings putting labels on beer cans or are they walking miles with beer cases on their back? I need more context here.

remainsofme.bsky.social•3 days ago

Slavery continues. It just looks different than 1864

one-infinity.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here, the alleged Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC subsidiary makes itself the SOLE ARBITER of judgment & punishment. NO CORPORATION should have a say regarding how people should pay their debts to society. I question how much DIRECT involvement in this the PARENT itself has. -ONE.⚖

one-infinity.bsky.social•3 days ago

In my view, this only further goes to solidify the use of FORCED LABOR through coercion. The mere FACT that allegedly a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC — would partake in such FRAUD with BILLIONS in PROFIT — only further shows & goes to reinforce CORPORATE GREED. -ONE.⚖

one-infinity.bsky.social•3 days ago

*That in itself is an illegal & EGREGIOUS ACT. On another note, this is also why they're seeking to privatize many prisons. The intent is that, they be reformed into virtually FREE or TOTALLY FREE SLAVE LABOR FOR-PROFIT PRISON CAMPS.

-ONE.⚖

one-infinity.bsky.social•3 days ago

What they're running here is a for-profit SLAVE LABOR CAMP. It's.based off of the housing of incarcerated individuals via taxpayer funding. By definition, that also constitutes FRAUD. -ONE.⚖

one-infinity.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's what ALL of this "only the criminals" IMMIGRATION (HUMAN TRAFFICKING) is about, SLAVE LABOR. They're exploring new & creative ways to regarding the REIMPLEMENTATION OF SLAVERY.

*CRIMINALS LOSE MANY OF THEIR RIGHTS; therefore, to some this seems justifiable. IT IS NOT!*

-ONE.💯

godhatesyeast.bsky.social•3 days ago

alabama is:

texas without the roads
louisiana without new orleans
mississippi without the river
tennessee without the music
georgia without the peaches
florida without the beaches

vanatheirys.bsky.social•3 days ago

Alabama is a pretty terrible place.

I will never forget 24 days in jail for a public intox. (With 2 yrs probation)

I saw many who claimed they never got payed for labor within the system too. I tend to believe them.

scottagibson.bsky.social•3 days ago

“They don’t work for us, and also, why do people this bad complain about having to work for us?” is some consistent arguing.

desarrayed.bsky.social•3 days ago

what are the odds that there's a written plan somewhere in the WH that has these planned ICE prisons being used as slave labor for the same groups that relied on undocumented labor?

marshawnlevels.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh it was always a plan to use slave labor. It’s the only way capitalism, in the form it has taken in the US, can live.

mnasca.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s absolutely the plan. I have no doubt.

apolishgirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

The hospitality industry,trump’s many hotels, need housekeepers. He can now make them work for free.

momsgotfive.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't want to say the town(for obvious reasons), but they are building a medium security prison in my Alabama town and it is no coincidence that the location is convenient to several farms and meat processing facilities

sascha-kersken.de•3 days ago

The probability of this event is 1.

akivamcohen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Link to the brief, please?

That brief seems effectively designed to get the distributor terminated by Anheuser-Busch and I want to know who wrote it

bentwhee.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think this is it.

https://clearinghouse-umich-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/doc/157918.pdf

shammysavage.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this a states’ rights argument?

blackshagreen.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ps Slavery is slavery regardless of its name. Prison labor? I think not.

blackshagreen.bsky.social•3 days ago

And if you think it can't get any scarier, there are pre crime units popping up around the country. Predictive policing. Imagine that. One of them is Clear Force, specializing in employees. Here's another...
https://time.com/4966125/police-departments-algorithms-chicago/

justinayoung.bsky.social•3 days ago

Alabama voters banned slavery but California voters didn't. 🤯

uptowngbv.bsky.social•3 days ago

The lawyer in me can’t help but mention there’s an admission in that statement.

esther1314.bsky.social•3 days ago

So the plaintiffs have a case as Budweiser contradicted it's own claim by admitting these people worked for the beer distributor - being evil and told on themselves 🤥

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