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Originally posted by Ideal08
IDid anyone know this already and I'm just late? And what do you think of it? Because my thing is this. Sadly, prison populations are largly comprised of minorities. So to have slavery in prisons... you can see where I'm going with this. So, what y'all think?
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I guess I knew that there was "involuntary servitude" in prison, but I don't know if I would classify it has slavery. My understanding is, you go to jail, they make you do work, they don't pay you. Now is that slavery? Personally I don't have a problem with that. I say, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime..... Is there something I am missing???
Now of course I realize there are MANY Black men in jail who did not do anything to get there. There was an article in yesterday's Atlanta Journal Constitution about 2 men who were released after 16 and 5 years (I think) after DNA evidence cleared them of rape. I also saw a play called The Exonerated in Chicago eariler this year that was absolutely moving. It was about inmates who had been on death row and were later found innocent.