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Thousands could be coerced into "unpaid labor" in Louisiana under new bill | HB 211 would make sleeping outdoors in public illegal and force unhoused people to "choose" between prisons and workhouses (www.newsweek.com)

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“HB 211 is a debt trap. It creates a population of people who are, by definition, unable to pay. And then converts that inability into a labor obligation,” Michael Ryan, a finance expert and founder of MichaelRyanMoney.com, told Newsweek. “The ‘streets to success’ framing is deliberate misdirection. No legitimate treatment program requires the patient to work off their bill under threat of incarceration."

I'm morbidly fascinated by how carefully this article avoids using the obvious term. But slavery. It's slavery. It is a bill that would literally, legally, enslave a population (of predominantly Black men, fucking surprise) for the "crime" of being poor.

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[–] 10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's just slavery with extra steps. But we already have for profit prison work camps. So I guess it's just a different flavor of slavery. Oh, and the ice "holding facilities" and "detention centers" because due process is only for white americans, aparently. They might start making them do labor also. You know, digging ditches and standing naked in front of them with a bulleye chest. That sort of thing. What happened to the whole world fighting against the one bad country?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

thier prisons arnt filling up like they are used to, so they turn to the homeless.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

Just an ugly reminder that slavery wasn't actually outlawed in the US.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nah, prisoners aren't slaves. they get paid..... 15c an hour....

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Except they literally are slaves as enshrined in our very own constitution.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 13 hours ago

I guess you missed the joke