In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
The US has always operated off of slave labor. We currently, among other things, use slave labor to fight forest fires.
I read somewhere the US both has a really high incarnation ratio (as in amounts of prisoners per x citizens) and a high percentage of externally employed prisoners. Interestingly those stats where compared to Russia (Siberian labour camps) and China (Uyghurs in forced labour).
i think its 1.2+million in for profit system, and you wonder why courts are often desperate to hand out convinctions often, despite the lack of evidence in many cases against disadvantaged people. it also helps breed future cannon fodder for the military too(through the children of the incarcerated), basically generational slavery.
Yes, we have one of the highest prisoner per-capita in the world