Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Convict leasing was the souths replacement for slavery. You could arrest a black person for anything after the civil war (that’s changed right?), including for not having a job or a home. So instead of buying slaves the state created them from freed people by throwing them into prison and then leasing them back to the former slaveholders.