“The high costs of low-level offenses: Most justice-involved people in the U.S. are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations. Yet even low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole, can lead to incarceration and other serious consequences...” From https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
Shane Bauer - American Prison. Great read. Author is a reporter who went undercover to work in Louisiana’s privatized prison as a guard making under $10 an hour. The book flips back and forth between telling his experiences and learning the history of private prisons which were born literally as a result of slavery being abolished. Brutal stuff in that book and very eye opening.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
- the entirety of the 13th amendment. it's right there in the text.
Heliotrope88 on June 14th, 2021 at 15:42 UTC »
“The high costs of low-level offenses: Most justice-involved people in the U.S. are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations. Yet even low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole, can lead to incarceration and other serious consequences...” From https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
Fah-que on June 14th, 2021 at 15:51 UTC »
Shane Bauer - American Prison. Great read. Author is a reporter who went undercover to work in Louisiana’s privatized prison as a guard making under $10 an hour. The book flips back and forth between telling his experiences and learning the history of private prisons which were born literally as a result of slavery being abolished. Brutal stuff in that book and very eye opening.
jib661 on June 14th, 2021 at 17:55 UTC »
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
- the entirety of the 13th amendment. it's right there in the text.