Louisiana Sheriff Wants Good Prisoners To Stay Jailed For Their Free Labor

[sheshe2]

He’s wishing for what is “essentially slavery,” the ACLU said.
By Sebastian Murdock and Hayley Miller

“In addition to the bad ones ... they’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in the cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money,” he continued. “Well, they’re going to let them out ― the ones that we use in work release programs.”

Marjorie Esman, executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana, told HuffPost that Prator’s desire to keep prisoners purely for their free labor is “essentially slavery.”

“The purpose of the criminal justice system is to keep the community safe and to make sure that nobody is incarcerated any longer than necessary,” Esman said. “It’s certainly not to provide free labor for law enforcement officials ― that is essentially slavery. It is obviously not only ludicrous but a gross violation of people’s rights.”

It’s almost as if he forgets that he’s talking about human beings — like he’s speaking about animals or cattle.
Angel Harris, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

MORE:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louisiana-sheriff-steve-prator-prisoners_us_59dfa0bee4b0fdad73b2cded?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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"Slavery By Another Name." Douglas Blackmon

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Obviously a graduate.......

of the "Joe Arpaio Sheriff School" - a subsidiary of "Trump University!"

[Angry Dragon]

4. A good point :evilgrin:

[guillaumeb]

2. Angola prison was a plantation at one time.

The same slaves, the same free labor, just called prisoners today.

Recommended.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. Happened to a friend's husband

He was sentenced to 4 years for a DUI (he caused an accident and a person was injured). He kept his nose clean as was anticipating parole. Then they found out he was a good all around handyman - plumbing, electrical, auto repair. He was denied parole twice.

[Angry Dragon]

6. PIGS

[procon]

5. Free prison labor... Isn't that a Human Rights Violation?

The US strongly condemns it when China does it, so how is the practice legal in any state? When private or state prisons force inmates to work they gain an unfair advantage in profits and benefits by competing with private businesses. All that free labor reduces wages and denies employment to people who might have normally been hired to do those jobs. That hurts the whole community and it just goes downhill from there.

[sheshe2]

8. I would certainly think so.

It started after The Emancipation Proclamation and went on until WWII. The

See...Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. For-profit prisons... It was theorized that the main reason for the round up and detention

of undocumented immigrants is to sell their services out to manufacturers during work shifts - while charging the state/fed for their "room and board"...

The greed is diabolical!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Personally, I would want harm to come to the Sheriff.

[Matthew28]

10. If you're poor

= you're a slave in republican land.

Evil bastards.