In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
And if anyone is wondering how this is legal (yes, it is 100% legal), I hereby direct them to the US Constitution, 13th Amendment, Section 1,
In other words, slavery or involuntary servitude is fair game if you’ve been convicted of a crime.
Which is very fucked-up in my opinion. “Land of the Free”, my ass…
So coincidental that the US has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, one that just happens to skew heavily non-white. Land of the free indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Damn. They had to reserve the darkest color solely for the USA … and El Salvador.
I mean, it’s not a secret. That’s what the clause was almost explicitly for. Slaves freed, vagrancy or similar becomes a crime, former slaves become prisoners because people won’t give them jobs so they don’t live in a house (also at the judgement of legal/judicial officials as to what counted as housed), many go back to the same plantations/workhouses they were already at.
It didn’t slip through, it’s not a conspiracy theory, and it isn’t the quiet part being said out loud. It was always loud.
Yes…? your tone sounds argumentative, but I’m not sure if you meant to come off that way. I wasn’t trying to imply that it is secret knowledge, just regular knowledge that not everyone knows about.
I was more frustrated that more people DON’T know this about our history.
Land of the free
Home of the slave