Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters
Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters
Pasadena Altadena & Octavia Butler
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/palisades_fires
#California #wildfires #LosAngeles #Palisades #Altadena #incarceratedworkers #convictlabor
#the13th
Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a thousand of the firefighters deployed to help contain the devastating fires are incarcerated. They have been working around the clock while earning as little as between $5.80 to $10.24 a day. For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.
“ The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office."
https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires
Capos always keen to “reduce the cost of labor” - $1 a day prison labourers
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/forced-prison-labor-slavery-election
Privatised detention centres exploiting Immigrants
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/settlement-forced-labor-case-against-private-prison-company-operating-immigration
#CoreCivic #13thAmendment #ForcedLabor #Convictlabor #Capitalism
Capitalists always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/mcdonalds-slaves-caxton-fast-food
Convict labour cheapest?
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alabama-convict-labor-fast-food
McD’s Stress Biz Mode
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/fast-food-stress-business-model
#fastfoodworkers #Capitalism #minimumwage #workingpoor #exploitation #caxton #Alabama #convictlabor
The dire conditions of fast-food work cause enormous staff turnover, which puts franchisees in a constant search for desperate workers. It’s no wonder that one McDonald’s in England failed to notice that it was employing victims of human trafficking.
#ConvictLabor is and has always been about reinstating slavery.
#NeoFeudalism is coming. What are we going to do about it?
“Truth in sentencing, tough on crime & ‘three strikes’ a trifecta that reduces the cost of labour for capos & boosts private prison profits per inmate per day“ - Lora Norda CEO
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/private-prisons-sentencing-law-lobbying
“ In 2021, over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system,[2][3] with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
#Privatisation #prisons #CoreCivic #Tennessee #convictlabor
#Capitalism
Convict labor was “…perfectly legal, since the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, made one very consequential exception: ’Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.’”
“Convict leasing is the missing link between slavery…and the disparate impact of the criminal justice system on African Americans today.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sugar-land-slave-convict-labor-history/
#Juneteenth #Slavery #ConvictLabor
https://archive.org/details/familysearch-and-prisons
FamilySearch and prisons by Burkely Herrmann
Topics
#FamilySearch, #genealogy, #genealogywebsites, #prisonlabor, #contractlabor, #incarceratedlabor, #idaho, #utah, #washington, #unitedstatesofamerika, #washingtonstate, #cachecounty, #duchesnecounty, #idahodepartmentofcorrections, #summitcounty, #kanecounty, #washingtondepartmentofcorrections, #familytrees, #churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, #mormons, #mormoncorridor, #convictlabor, #inmatelabor, #prisons, #jails, #incarceration, #recordsindexing, #archivallabor, #archives
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