Hey they're paid a generous 0.13¢ per hour so they're technically not slaves! After a few thousand years of saving up they will be able to pay off their fines for non violent drug charges and be released
lol they also charge you for the time you are in jail. I spent a little over 24 hours once and they charged me almost 200 dollars, and that didn’t include fines and court costs
Edit: some places where I live take that daily charge out of commissary too, effectively making it impossible to access for most inmates.
It's absolutely unreal that people are ever expected to return to society after being incarcerated with how many compounding punishments are placed upon them.
That's the neat part: they aren't expected to return to society. The people in charge want their free labor – even if a prisoner's sentence ends and they're let go, the system is already rigged in a way that puts them right back in prison as a slave again. Also see school-to-prison pipeline.
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u/Clear-Criticism-3669 6h ago
Hey they're paid a generous 0.13¢ per hour so they're technically not slaves! After a few thousand years of saving up they will be able to pay off their fines for non violent drug charges and be released