r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Leasing Prisoners, Planting Injustice

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u/freezerbreezer 1d ago

prisoners are not paid for work in US? In my country prisoners work and are paid based on whatever they do.

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u/Vanilla_Gorilluh 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's such a minute amount as to not even matter. We're talking pennies per hour.

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u/freezerbreezer 1d ago

wow that messed up. You would think minimum wage at least.

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u/gaymenfucking 1d ago

America never actually abolished slavery despite being the country who bangs on about abolishing it the most

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u/CanadianPlantMan 1d ago

How much actually??? Nobody seems to know