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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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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We already use a lot of incarcerated labor in "invisible" jobs. Whole industries rely on incarcerated labor.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Completely correct... that's... the model.

The fun little carve out in the 13th Ammendment that enables this to all work.

So that model is now going to expand.

My next guess would be: All the people who did PPP fraud, maxed out BNPL loans and then just refused to acknowledge collections, untill they miss a court date and end up with a default judgement by a court.

Literal debt slaves.

And then also everybody getting shaken out of Section 8, lotta them will end up homeless, ie are defacto criminals when a cop notices them or a karen instructs a cop to notice them.