Collected Item: “The Penal System Today is Slavery’: Lawmakers Finally Start to Talk About Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons”
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The Penal System Today is Slavery’: Lawmakers Finally Start to Talk About Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons
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Protestors demonstrate in public against the abuse of prison inmates forced to work for slave wages in unhealthy conditions.
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#lockedupwithcovid, #covid19, #texas, #abolishprisons, #slavelabor, #prisonlabor
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https://www.texasobserver.org/penal-system-slavery-unpaid-labor-texas/
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Photo: Alex Milan Tracy Text: Vicky Camarillo
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2019-05-10