The most common punishment for refusing to work in states like Florida (who does not pay for labor like making the food for other inmates), is solitary confinement. So really you will just spend a lot of time alone sitting on cold cement until go insane.
Some people may say solitary sounds fine, but anyone who has been in solitary tells me it’s terrible.
Couple that with the image of a corrections officer overseeing farm labor from horseback (I wish I were joking), which includes, but is not limited to, actually picking cotton, and can see exactly what they’re trying to do.
i have not been in solitary, but once when sick i went about a month without speaking to or seeing anyone (not even watching tv, playing video games, or going on the internet. i was sick). by the end my pareidolia was going nuts, i was seeing faces in everything.
For those who don’t know what pareidolia means like me, the context clues here were good. “The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or images in random stimuli, like faces in clouds or rocks.”
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 14 hours ago
and if you refuse to work?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The most common punishment for refusing to work in states like Florida (who does not pay for labor like making the food for other inmates), is solitary confinement. So really you will just spend a lot of time alone sitting on cold cement until go insane.
Some people may say solitary sounds fine, but anyone who has been in solitary tells me it’s terrible.
yakko@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
American prisons are straight up slavery, no extra steps. It’s deliberate.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, it’s explicit, too. It’s stated formally in the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un…
Also, the incarceration rate for black Americans is nearly five times higher than that of white Americans:
theglobalstatistics.com/united-states-prison-race…
Couple that with the image of a corrections officer overseeing farm labor from horseback (I wish I were joking), which includes, but is not limited to, actually picking cotton, and can see exactly what they’re trying to do.
worthrises.org/…/prison-labor-in-agriculture-peop…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
i have not been in solitary, but once when sick i went about a month without speaking to or seeing anyone (not even watching tv, playing video games, or going on the internet. i was sick). by the end my pareidolia was going nuts, i was seeing faces in everything.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
For those who don’t know what pareidolia means like me, the context clues here were good. “The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or images in random stimuli, like faces in clouds or rocks.”