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America is creating the conditions for the return of slavery (ricochet.media)

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[-] monarch@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I can't speak for where you were at specifically but in some places if you don't "volunteer" to work it's looked at extremely unfavorably by parole boards.

I wouldn't necessarily call it slavery light though just a different type of slavery. American chattel slavery was uniquely horrible even amongst most of the other forms of slavery that have existed in the past.

[-] tree_frog@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That makes sense.

Parole was removed in my State. My sentence was 2.5 in and 4 out. Meaning, I did two and a half years in and then 4 years on parole.

And there's no such thing as good behavior.

But, if I wanted basic necessities, like soap and deodorant that wasn't shit so I wasn't getting harassed for poor hygiene, I either needed to work or get outside help from my family.

Anyway, I definitely see how they incentivize labor heavily. And the wages are essentially slave wages.

So it's on the spectrum, I'm not disagreeing there.

I'm just a trans woman that is very scared right now of the rhetoric around labor camps. And if I had to choose prison or labor camps, I would take prison.

But since they'll take my meds anyway, which will lead to my suicide likely, instead I just plan to fight.

Nothing to lose at this point sadly.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

You are not alone, and I mean that genuinely. (vs. a tropey excuse for compassion) ✊🏽

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

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