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Someone can be in prison without being a slave. I'm talking about changing the very definition of justice. It would change the lives for the millions of people already there and the millions more that will inevitably follow in their footsteps. The debt isn't even being "paid to society" anymore with the private prison system making the profits from the American people's human labor.
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When you go to prison you are "serving time". It is justified firmly under the 13th amendment. The reason this language is in the amendment is to ensure that the practice of involuntary internment is still legal after the abolition of slavery. While I understand complaints about for profit prisons this is not how to address this. Every word in our constitution has enormous consequences. While you might read it one way, others will read it another. We should never seek to change the constitution lightly and any such changes must be highly scrutinized. As far as being in prison without being a slave, no they can't. Even if prisons are turned into paradise, stays there would still be by definition involuntary servitude.
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Have you heard about the nationwide prison strike that started September 9th. It was the largest coordinated prison strike in our planets history and MSM suppressed it. Full disclosure, I'm the mod of the prison strike subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/PrisonStrike/
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[–] SeanBox [S] ago
Someone can be in prison without being a slave. I'm talking about changing the very definition of justice. It would change the lives for the millions of people already there and the millions more that will inevitably follow in their footsteps. The debt isn't even being "paid to society" anymore with the private prison system making the profits from the American people's human labor.
[–] JohnPaulJones 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
When you go to prison you are "serving time". It is justified firmly under the 13th amendment. The reason this language is in the amendment is to ensure that the practice of involuntary internment is still legal after the abolition of slavery. While I understand complaints about for profit prisons this is not how to address this. Every word in our constitution has enormous consequences. While you might read it one way, others will read it another. We should never seek to change the constitution lightly and any such changes must be highly scrutinized. As far as being in prison without being a slave, no they can't. Even if prisons are turned into paradise, stays there would still be by definition involuntary servitude.
[–] SeanBox [S] ago
Have you heard about the nationwide prison strike that started September 9th. It was the largest coordinated prison strike in our planets history and MSM suppressed it. Full disclosure, I'm the mod of the prison strike subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/PrisonStrike/