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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor (futurism.com)
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In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)

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[–] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Tbf, many if not most of the people convicted were already poor people, especially minorities, who were railroaded by the prison slavery industrial complex even BEFORE ICE existed, let alone became one of the top 15 military forces in the world by funding.

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