• octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOP
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          11 months ago

          We treat our own people like slaves, what makes them so special?

          You are super close to seeing the actual point.

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            11 months ago

            That it’s ok to let prisoners work to pay for their own housing and food instead of the taxpayers?

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              11 months ago

              That maybe we shouldn’t be treating anyone like that and that if we are going to have people work, yes even prisoners, should be paid a fair rate instead of pennies on the dollar.

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                11 months ago

                I’m gonna pass on that and I’ve been locked up working those jobs. What are we treating them like? They have a choice…If you don’t want to, they don’t make you but believe me…you want those jobs…The fair rate is calculated after working in the cost of your housing, a victims compensation fund, your food and medical care… plus you get a reduction on your sentence and you aren’t institutionalized as bad…you never thought about that did you Toby? Now get to picking that cotton boy!

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                  11 months ago

                  Yes, you just seem like such a good person.

                  I’m gonna stick with we should treat all people as people, not property.

                  Especially because in America there is a damn good chance they have done nothing wrong.

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                    11 months ago

                    I’m definitely not a good person.and I hope you never meet the majority of the people I was around…Sure a few of them might be innocent of what they were serving time for but they have done a lot more than what they were caught doing and a lot of them spend their time networking with others in their trade and learn how to not make mistakes the next time.