[Thank You Rush]

Now I understand but really - if they don’t want punishment, why can’t they behave themselves? That would make too much sense - and no room to complain or get attention.

“”That is, even while the cotton fields of old may no longer be populated by Black laborers from the damp dawn to sweaty dusk, other practices reinforcing slavery persist. The incarcerated “convicts” put out dangerous California wildfires for less than two dollars per hour and sew COVID-19 masks, which they are not provided.””

[lepton]

The incarcerated “convicts” put out dangerous California wildfires for less than two dollars per hour

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Are those not volunteer? Most ‘prison jobs’ are subject to intense competition to get into them, especially ones which allow them to get outside, or out of the prison itself.