Laws passed during the era of the New Deal prohibited the use of prison labor with the exception of state institutions. However, lobbying by corporations eventually allowed them to use prison labor by 1979, and by 1995 businesses won exemptions from minimum wage laws which permitted them to exploit prison labor for, according to Elizabeth S. Anderson, “mere pennies an hour.” She adds that “many are forced to work in unsafe conditions without protective equipment, because workplace health and safety laws do not apply to prison workers.”[39]

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    2 days ago

    Yes. Let’s vote for the neo nazis because of his one good idea. What could go wrong?

    (Remember, that time when he praised hitler? Praised a dude that thought he was subhuman because of his ancestry?)

    (Also, you do realize that changing the 13th requires another amendment, so that’s basically not going to happen.)