Yes, please.

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That’s good. Prison Labour is modern slavery

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It’s still legal to have punitive slavery. There is a carve out in the amendment. It is repugnant. We need a 28th amendment declaring an end to all slavery.

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While at it, ban profits from prisons.

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they enslaved people to move unknown bodies from “Negro Hill Cemetery?”? The fuck…?

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California and Nevada finally contemplate an end to slavery

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Looking forward to when GEO Group v. State of California reaches an outrageously corrupt SCOTUS.

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GEO Group v. State of California

Context. In case you hadn’t heard of this like me.

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I’ll be honest, I was just throwing a guess out at who might challenge this, as a cynical joke. Feels completely disgusting that it was a bullseye and there is already a similar case as precedent.

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Bet it gets veto. They just made homelessness illegal so they about to fill shit ton of for profit prisons.

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Its a proposition so they cant veto it without another proposition.

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