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"Starbucks has used prison labor to package coffee sold in its stores. Prisoners may earn as little as 23 cents an hour" "The US makes up less than 5% of the world's population but has nearly 25% of all the prisoners in the world" 4
"15% of state prisoners at year-end 2015 had been convicted of a drug offense" "47% of federal" "A report from the Prison Policy Initiative found that the cost of 15-minute phone calls for prisoners could exceed $20" 5
"It's a billion-dollar industry that many Americans know nothing about. Over 50 prominent American corporations have been exposed for using prison laborers" 6
"African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted" "African-American adults are 5.9 times as likely to be incarcerated than whites and Hispanics are 3.1 times as likely." 7
The injustices with our justice system go on and on but to me one thing is clear, slavery is alive and well in the US it just has a new name, Penal labor. So does the US practice slavery? End
Phone calls should be free.
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