Calling this the New Jim Crow does not adequately name what this is.
Angola, America’s largest maximum-security prison, sits on 18,000 acres in Angola, Louisiana. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour for their labor.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/inmates-at-louisianas-angola-prison-sue-to-end-working-farm-lines-in-brutal-heat
Angola, America’s largest maximum-security prison, sits on 18,000 acres in Angola, Louisiana. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour for their labor.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/inmates-at-louisianas-angola-prison-sue-to-end-working-farm-lines-in-brutal-heat
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So scary.
Fix the 13th Amendment
https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2024/12/23/americas-most-famous-prison-rodeo-returning-to-angola-louisiana-with-new-warden/77082773007/
2. If you believe they should work, do you think they should be earning minimum? Again, they're living on our dime. Locked up for being criminals.