Never forget that our prisoners are still the only legal slavery in the U.S., and that they’re forced to do necessary work, including fighting forest fires, for nothing.
There is honestly so much wrong with our prison system, from legalized slavery to price gouging (as much $17 for a 15 minute phone call) to ex-convicts being unable to find work regardless of their qualifications, making it impossible for them to re-integrate into society and almost guaranteeing that they’ll go back to prison.
That’s not even touching the literal abuse they often suffer. Prisoners go through labor without proper medical care. They boil alive in prison showers as punishment. And that’s before we get to the institutional, wide-spread, and perfectly accepted torture that is solitary confinement, one single stay in which can ruin a person psychologically for life.
