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Re:Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them ... by rm_-rf_slash on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:54AM (#14096464)
You can draw a straight line from the 13th Amendment to the private prisons of today. After all, the southern states whose economy was ruined by the Civil War had to get cheap labor somehow, so they arrested all those former slaves for random bullshit like loitering, had them convicted by all-white juries, and sent them to work in chain gangs.

Netflix produced a great documentary about all of this - 13th - and it's well worth the watch.

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Re:Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them ... by maxerickson on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:00AM (#14097723)
Most prison labor occurs at publicly owned and operated institutions.

Simply because private prisons hold a small portion of the people incarcerated at a state or federal level.

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Re:Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them ... by 8note on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:43AM (#14098790)
that's somewhat less interesting than a per capita measure
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Re:Investigation finds inmates built computers and hid them ... by maxerickson on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:46AM (#14098819)
Feel free to figure it out.

My point was that the use of prison labor is not limited to private prisons.

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