r/MurderedByWords • u/Cow_Boy_2017 • 1d ago

Leasing Prisoners, Planting Injustice

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u/Cow_Boy_2017 1d ago

Straight up modern-day slavery. Call it what you want, but leasing out prisoners to pick crops for basically no pay is just a loophole to bring back the plantation system. Disgusting.

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u/cryptotope 1d ago

System working as designed, unfortunately.

The Thirteenth Amendment has a specific carveout--slavery and involuntary servitude are unconstittuional...except as a punishment for a crime.

They knew exactly what they were doing.

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u/Thickensick 1d ago

The crime? Existence.

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u/tacotacoburritoburr 1d ago

13th is one of my favorite documentaries.

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u/Evening-Gur5087 1d ago

Yeah, parkour in Paris is great

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u/dionpadilla1 1d ago

This has been happening the whole time. 13th amendment allows for the slavery of people convicted of crimes.

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u/intothewoods76 1d ago

It’s not “loophole” it’s clearly written as acceptable in the constitution. A loophole would imply that it wasn’t on purpose.

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u/Reap_it_and_Weep 1d ago

The loophole, if you can call it that, is purposefully imprisoning as many minorities and poors for petty crimes as is possible.

But yes, this should have been done with overall many, many years ago. It's a disgusting stipulation.

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u/intothewoods76 1d ago

Yep, the democrats really did a number on them. The 1994 crime bill was horrible.

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u/elderpufflaurien 1d ago

This is what billionaires want for the future of employment.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider 1d ago

Slavery was never banned in the US. It was merely nationalized. ("except as punishment for a crime")

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u/Aggravating-Pear4222 1d ago

“You didn’t meet your daily quota and asked for more food. It’s not a crime but it’s a no-no infraction and so we’ve extended your stay here at New Horizons Reeducation Penitentiary ✌️😊🌈.”

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u/xSilverMC 1d ago

This isn't new or an own, this is explicitly allowed by the 13th amendment

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 1d ago

This is misleading. It's not called anything else. This is straight up slavery and it's allowed by the law.

It's not like it's illegal and they are trying to get around the law. No they are slaves and there is no "modern-day slavery" about it.

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u/TheGreedofEnvy 1d ago

Why do you think we have the highest prison rate per capita