• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    They’ll be “detained” in for profit prisons and then under the federal prisoner labor program they’ll get paid 10 cents an hour to do the same work. The detention will end up becoming indefinite and private corps will reap the profits of modern-day slavery on a bigger scale than they already do from our (disproportionately) large incarcerated population.

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      And Californian’s rejected a ballot measure to make this illegal, so they’re getting what they wanted.