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Working on California's incarcerated fire crews: "It is kind of like you’re a slave"
(www.motherjones.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Slavery is never moral, but is still legal in the US.
Many US companies use slave labor to undercut the wages paid to free citizens.
Undercut the starvation wages.