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    Default Prison SLAVES REVOLT Across 20 States! Victoria's Secret Shaking in their Garter?

    Forced Free Labor is Slavery, right y'all? Well turns out in 20 states prisoners are saying NO MORE to being forced to work for Victoria's Secret and a whole lotta others!

    "While almost every business in America uses some form of prison labor to produce their goods, here are just a few of the companies who are helping prisoners pay off their debt to society, so to speak.


    1. Whole Foods. The costly organic supermarket often nicknamed “Whole Paycheck” purchases artisan cheese and fish prepared by inmates who work for private companies. The inmates are paid .74 cents a day to raise tilapia that is subsequently sold for $11.99 a pound at the fashionable grocery store.
    2. McDonald’s. The world’s most successful fast food franchise purchases a plethora of goods manufactured in prisons, including plastic cutlery, containers, and uniforms. The inmates who sew McDonald’s uniforms make even less money by the hour than the people who wear them.
    3. Wal-Mart. Although their company policy clearly states that “forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart”, basically every item in their store has been supplied by third-party prison labor factories. Wal-Mart purchases its produce from prison farms where laborers are often subjected to long, arduous hours in the blazing heat without adequate sunscreen, water, or food.
    4. Victoria’s Secret. Female inmates in South Carolina sew undergarments and casual-wear for the pricey lingerie company. In the late 1990’s, 2 prisoners were placed in solitary confinement for telling journalists that they were hired to replace “Made in Honduras” garment tags with “Made in U.S.A.” tags. Victoria’s Secret has declined to comment.
    5. Aramark. This company, which also provides food to colleges, public schools and hospitals, has a monopoly on foodservice in about 600 prisons in the U.S. Despite this, Aramark has a history of poor foodservice, including a massive food shortage that caused a prison riot in Kentucky in 2009.
    6. AT&T. In 1993, the massive phone company laid off thousands of telephone operators—all union members—in order to increase their profits. Even though AT&T’s company policy regarding prison labor reads eerily like Wal-Mart’s, they have consistently used inmates to work in their call centers since ’93, barely paying them $2 a day.
    7. BP. When BP spilled 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf coast, the company sent a workforce of almost exclusively African-American inmates to clean up the toxic spill while community members, many of whom were out-of-work fisherman, struggled to make ends meet. BP’s decision to use prisoners instead of hiring displaced workers outraged the Gulf community, but the oil company did nothing to reconcile the situation.

    From dentures to shower curtains to pill bottles, almost everything you can imagine is being made in American prisons. Also implicit in the past and present use of prison labor are Microsoft, Nike, Nintendo, Honda, Pfizer, Saks Fifth Avenue, JCPenney, Macy’s, Starbucks, and more. For an even more detailed list of businesses that use prison labor, visit buycott.com, but the real guilty party here is the United States government. UNICOR, the corporation created and owned by the federal government to oversee penal labor, sets the condition and wage standards for working inmates.
    One of the highest-paying prison jobs in the country? Sewing American flags for the state police.
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    I don't see this as free labor / slavery at all. What are people in prison supposed to do? Twittle their thumbs and wait for time to pass. This beats child labor or China any day. This is literally paying ones debt to society. The less I have to pay in taxs for prisoners the better.

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    Funny, I was boycotting Bayer because they supported experiments on humans in concentration camps during World War 2. I guess they're still scumbags.
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    Horrible.

    1. There shouldn't be so damn many people in prison
    2. WTF is this North Korea? If they work, PAY THEM THE MINIMUM WAGE! If they are being rehabilitated, then they are still expected to function in society. Why are they any different from any other worker? Many of these people get out eventually. If they had a little dough they might have a chance.
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    They pay them so little so they spend every cent at the commissary buying things that are way overpriced such as TAMPONS in women's prisons. This is yet another way private for profit prisons make money. Even if they got less than minimum wage, anything is better than 7cents an hour or whatever it is they get! Ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bahuba View Post
    Horrible.

    1. There shouldn't be so damn many people in prison
    2. WTF is this North Korea? If they work, PAY THEM THE MINIMUM WAGE! If they are being rehabilitated, then they are still expected to function in society. Why are they any different from any other worker? Many of these people get out eventually. If they had a little dough they might have a chance.
    ^^

    So much #1. US prisons being an industry means they need a steady flow of prisoners to keep profits up. They don't want rehabilitation, they want to be able to pack prisons with poor marginalized people who lack the legal clout to fight back so end up serving sentences for ridiculous charges.

    For those of us who are like 'but they're prisoners they deserve to be punished" etc, remember all you need to get a prostitution charge is a cop who decides to give you one, and you not having the money available for a good enough lawyer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperJa View Post
    ^^

    So much #1. US prisons being an industry means they need a steady flow of prisoners to keep profits up. They don't want rehabilitation, they want to be able to pack prisons with poor marginalized people who lack the legal clout to fight back so end up serving sentences for ridiculous charges.

    For those of us who are like 'but they're prisoners they deserve to be punished" etc, remember all you need to get a prostitution charge is a cop who decides to give you one, and you not having the money available for a good enough lawyer.

    Now THIS I agree with

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyla19 View Post
    Funny, I was boycotting Bayer because they supported experiments on humans in concentration camps during World War 2. I guess they're still scumbags.
    I'm so glad you shared that because I certainly won't be buying from them anymore.

    It's staggering how many massive corporations are in on this scheme. I thought prison labor was little companies working toward giving them skills to get hired outside prison. These big ass corporations are just using them, suppressing wages for everybody.... This country, between the Nationalistic Pledge of Allegiance at games and these creepy work camps....we've become Nazi Germany, North Korea, all of it. I don't recognize this place. People shot for being Black and quiet as it's kept, Latino too. We're in a police state and only fighting on the local level can get us out of this position.
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    I had no idea. Wow. I knew prisons are privatized an in the business of making money and target poor marginalized people for stupid shit like drugs/prostitution (while giving rapists three months) , but now I'm seeing it's also free slave labor! disgusting. Its gunna hurt to give up Walmart cause I'm broke but I'm gunna try

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    Two words for this that seem to be a common theme to most of the fuckups of today| CORPORATE GREED! We let them get away with everything. They don't pay taxes. Our whole earth is fucked because of their greed. And no one has stopped them. The predictions are saying our world will be like a Mad Max movie in the future. Not a cool futuristic movie. All because they've helped to ruin our economy, our earth, natural resources and the list goes on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimist View Post
    I'm so glad you shared that because I certainly won't be buying from them anymore.

    It's staggering how many massive corporations are in on this scheme. I thought prison labor was little companies working toward giving them skills to get hired outside prison. These big ass corporations are just using them, suppressing wages for everybody.... This country, between the Nationalistic Pledge of Allegiance at games and these creepy work camps....we've become Nazi Germany, North Korea, all of it. I don't recognize this place. People shot for being Black and quiet as it's kept, Latino too. We're in a police state and only fighting on the local level can get us out of this position.
    Thank you for summing it up perfectly. We're living in a police state. And much of the media has brainwashed the majority of the public into thinking our neighbors are our enemies. I don't see a positive way to turn this around at this point. It's become a nightmare.
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    WOW, pot meet kettle...

    "The U.S. has stepped up efforts to battle forced labor in prisons overseas, and the move is spelling trouble for some Chinese companies.

    U.S. authorities have blocked imports they suspect were made with convict labor linked to three Chinese firms, detaining goods including chemicals, textile fibers and sweetener.

    The recent enforcement orders are the first since the U.S. closed a decades-old loophole in March. A trade law from 1930 had previously allowed goods "made with convict labor, forced labor or indentured labor" to be imported if they were in short supply.

    Prison labor has long been an ugly and opaque corner of China's giant manufacturing and trade sector. U.S. efforts to tackle the problem have run up against a lack of transparency and cooperation from the Chinese government."

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/news...labor-exports/
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    WOW, pot meet kettle...

    "The U.S. has stepped up efforts to battle forced labor in prisons overseas, and the move is spelling trouble for some Chinese companies.

    U.S. authorities have blocked imports they suspect were made with convict labor linked to three Chinese firms, detaining goods including chemicals, textile fibers and sweetener.

    The recent enforcement orders are the first since the U.S. closed a decades-old loophole in March. A trade law from 1930 had previously allowed goods "made with convict labor, forced labor or indentured labor" to be imported if they were in short supply.

    Prison labor has long been an ugly and opaque corner of China's giant manufacturing and trade sector. U.S. efforts to tackle the problem have run up against a lack of transparency and cooperation from the Chinese government."

    http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/news...labor-exports/

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    So many news stories I hear now are beyond disturbing.
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    I like that saying, "Pot meet kettle"
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    I speak the truth!!! Unfortunately!
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    Quote Originally Posted by wish View Post
    I don't see this as free labor / slavery at all. What are people in prison supposed to do? Twittle their thumbs and wait for time to pass. This beats child labor or China any day. This is literally paying ones debt to society. The less I have to pay in taxs for prisoners the better.
    Ok...then why is Victoria secret and whole foods so expensive then?? If this is ok to do then shouldn't these companies pass this on to consumers? Looks like we are all getting screwed....��.

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    Prison needs to rehabilitate. I'm ashamed to say where I grew up a lot of inmates are happy to be locked up..... it's an upgrade from being homeless & hungry.

    This prison labor thing is such crap.. they should have job training in the Pen so less inmates will want to go back to hustling. Fix people's heads so they quit doing stupid things with their bodies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SnuffleUffleGrass View Post
    Prison needs to rehabilitate. I'm ashamed to say where I grew up a lot of inmates are happy to be locked up..... it's an upgrade from being homeless & hungry.

    This prison labor thing is such crap.. they should have job training in the Pen so less inmates will want to go back to hustling. Fix people's heads so they quit doing stupid things with their bodies...
    This ^^

    So many people end up turning to illegal activities because of lack of opportunity.

    Then they get out of prison and there's still no more opportunities AND now they have a criminal record as a big "pls don't hire me" for future employers. Why is recidivism so high? Well wtf else are they supposed to do.

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    Thanks for posting this. I'm so impressed at how people in prison have been able to organize themselves across 20+ states in some of the most difficult conditions. It's truly inspiring. Some of the stories I've heard about the punishment organizers are facing are pretty intense.

    I used to be part of the union, the IWW, which has helped organize for this strike. The union had a sex workers section and this strike is being coordinated by the Incarcerated Workers section.

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    It's really sad. I had no idea. That's how much media coverage there has been on this. And the organizers getting fucked over. They're messing with multi BILLION dollar companies.
    People need to be outraged over alot of things that are going on now in days. Instead they have a majority of us beat down by giving us just enough to get by and we want to keep ourselves head down and off the radar lest we end up there too. Sick fucking world.

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