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incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation
~~I'm pretty sure~~ the word "former" has no business being in that sentence.
Seriously
Last year, several men incarcerated at Angola along with the New Orleans-based advocacy group Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) filed a class-action lawsuit alleging cruel and unusual punishment and forced labor in the fields of the maximum security prison, once a former slave plantation that spans some 18,000 acres. The men, most of whom are Black, said they use hoes and shovels or stoop to pick crops by hand in dangerously hot temperatures as armed guards look on. If they refuse to work or fail to meet quotas, they can be sent to solitary confinement or face other punishment, according to disciplinary guidelines.
Seems like a good time to point out that slavery was not really abolished by the 13th Amendment.
Section 1
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.
Emphasis mine. Former does not belong in that sentence. That is a current slave plantation and those are slaves.
"disciplinary." TFW it means "tortured to death."
The state immediately appealed the decision.
Of course they did. 😔
Louisiana has been extra-shithole the last few years, so that move is totally on brand.
You know how that movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was supposed to take place in the 1930s? It didn't. It just looks like the 1930s down there. Especially in attitude. Or maybe the 1830s.
After the Supreme Sham ruled last week we've gone back the the 18th century.
And the people that used to call themselves the Tea Party put those justices in the position to give us back the monarchy.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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