The Prison Factory | Fault Lines

The US state of Alabama has the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world. Its prison system has become so dangerously overcrowded that in 2016, for the first time, the US Justice Department launched a federal civil rights investigation into the entire state's prison conditions.
Meanwhile, prisoners have been taking matters into their own hands. In September 2016, inmates at Holman Prison went on strike to protest what they call cruel and unusual forms of punishment - including labour, for little to no pay. Inmates used smuggled cell phones to spread the word about the strike, which took hold in about two dozen states.
How did a group of prisoners calling themselves the Free Alabama Movement organise the single-largest prison strike in US history? Fault Lines' Josh Rushing traveled to Alabama to find out more about them - discovering two of the group's leaders are now in solitary confinement. Despite their isolation, through letters and videos they are still finding ways to get their message to the world.
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[@papi55]

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime>>>EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME!!!!!>>>> This is the best legal loophole to make money for any state in the union. I'm pretty sure even the federal government gets a piece of the pie!!

[@yusufinvestor6410]

Steve Laurent specifically made that way to get a piece of the pie from the states

[@TheNewton]

So as long as the amendment can be argued as allowing it, that's legally okay and still complete bullshit.

[@danniaddams5502]

What with all the "do the crime, do the time" comments? The inmates are not complaining about being in jail (though one said he was innocent), they're complaining about the living conditions in the jails and the disregard of their rights as human beings. Of course jails are not supposed to comfy and cozy, but if you're locking away HUMANS, they shouldn't be treated worse than ANIMALS. That is the point of this video. No one is rallying for their innocence, therefore there's no need to talk about the crimes that landed them in jail. Also, let's not act like there aren't innocent people behind bars. There are, and some don't get exonerated until 30, 40 years later. So, that means innocent people are living in inhumane conditions for no reason, and possibly could for the next 30 years or whenever someone takes a second, hard look at their case.

[@MiturBinEsderty]

I believe that we should employ inmates in all types of work. Pay them the going rate. so they can support their children, be able to pay for an upgraded cell and food. Allow them to eventually with perfect behavior the opportunity for overnight weekend family visitation. If you made prison human with just some basic things it will incentivize inmate to refrainy

[@davidjoost]

america creeps me out

[@StephenUrquhart-yj3wt]

I'd never want to set foot in America done few holidays but America never entered my head nothing there I wish to see

[@phoenix5054]

"If you put a dog in this cell, you would be charged with animal cruelty." Well, men have less rights than a dog so....

[@mathewjose4753]

That's not an accurate comparison. An accurate comparison would be you putting a dog which killed a kid in this condition

[@anongirl559]

When prisoners are forced to work for free/slave wages, that encourages corporations to lobby for more laws that infringe on our personal freedoms to ensure more people get locked up! Non-violent crimes like drug possession, prostitution & petty theft should not be clogging up the system & resulting in free labor for corporations. Just because a person is in prison doesn't mean it's okay to rape, assault or torture them either. The loss of freedom IS the punishment.

[@JSkyGemini]

Anon, that's exactly right. The prison system should NOT be private.

[@bethanydavis9023]

We have "Freedom". Hah. More like provided privileges that are slowly being taken away that most are blinded to notice through multiple means.

[@Allthegoodones]

You do not work voluntarily. If you do not work they will keep you in prison longer. They call it non compliance and will take your good time, the time you earn by law for good behavior, forcing you to be incarcerated longer. Alabama is not the only state. They all have similar practices.

[@steveellison7867]

How would you feel if one of them killed your family member

[@JSkyGemini]

I wouldn't know Steve but I'm not going to be a bleeding heart, jumping up and down like you, unless you've had to live through something like that. But I doubt that's why you're saying what you did. I do know oftentimes the families of victims do Not want the perpetrators put to death and a lot of them can find it in themselves to forgive. It's a personal thing and deserves better than your trite one-liners.

[@Nick-yv1wy]

Do people get better in prison being mistreated or treated as slaves? Does their absence make the remaining ones lives better? How are people impacted in cases where people are falsely charged? Does society get better because of our prison system. I'm not sure any of it improves our society. Why do we have so many regions that are some of the most dangerous in the world with the highest encarceration rates?

[@StephenUrquhart-yj3wt]

These al jazeer documentary there brilliant every aspect covered ive see numerous documentaries

[@trenacouncil9417]

Kinetik is a great person that helps others before himself

[@joshsimi8680]

"He doesn't want to talk?" Lmao.

[@sharktv3000]

These aren’t food shoplifters or people writing bad checks for school clothes. They aren’t awaiting trial for misdemeanor offenses- They’ve been convicted of serious crimes in a court of law and reprimanded to custody.

[@quentienrogers8092]

Damm sumbody help these guys plz....

[@bethanydavis9023]

*May I grab your attention please and take time out of your life to read some of this, would be greatly appreciated to get the ball rolling.* If someone were to start a "fan project" of in a "fictional" world spanding different games exploring and experiencing the different and vast sides of underhaning corruption throught multiple parts of society, exploring falt and loopholes being exploited in systems. This world would mirror ours in many ways except being "more" corrupt. Some such settings these would take place in would be the political, social, economic 'worlds'. The prison and medical setting will be a special addition as well as exploring the other more subtle who exploit things far more in the shadows, like food companies, oil factories, and other such industries. The substories would be the characters themselves as while they provide important viewpoints they themselves wouldn't specifically be the center focus but as a means to deliver the overall story as well as the personal snippets of stories of those around them and they themselves. The biggest challenges would be researching, execution, funding, and more. If this would to happen perhaps the plots could be tested by basically creating novels and books to teat out the script, delivery, and as roughdraghps for the games themselves. Allowing for more than one community to experience the work and arouse awareness of what "potential" harm corruption may bring. Funding may come from investors who may wish this to come out, funders that preferably aren't big corporations that this may include. Now if only I can gather the people, recoursees and knowledge available I could do it myself but I am more than hopping someone else may tackle this. Besides, "the more the merrier" so more people doing this the better. ( ▪ > ▪}€u Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this. Maybe with enough motivation, lack of selfpreservasion, and a good dash of people in power not trying to tear this and stuff like this down, patience, perseverance, friends, and living long enough I may actually really try to scrap somethings together for someone because I know that I myself don't have what it takes right now to anytime soon to create something like this.

[@AlaskanAndie]

MAN YOU GUYS HAVE THE BEST HARSH TRUTH DOCS!!!!! VERY POWERFUL!!!!!

[@jonstefanandersen]

Don´t forget that Al Jazeera has an anti-american bias. Although their documentaries are good.

[@willk8687]

They are criminals in prison. What do they expect? Taxpayer money should be prioritized towards law abiding citizens.

[@TariAkpodiete]

Will K > you do realize that there are innocent people in prison, right? Plus even the guilty shouldn’t be treated worse than animals

[@bethanydavis9023]

The scum of society is usually better off, and then there's these guys who are in prison. They usually do around moderate to the majority lower, then there are those who done none, falsely accused, who are in there. The treatment they receive is very obviously not proportionate to what they should get.

[@paulystp]

Work in prison was the best thing about prison , you forgot you were inside for a while and keeps you out of trouble and you get perks , in saying that some officers do lock people up for no reason in solitary, and what I mean by no reason is they will provoke an inmate and as soon as they go off lock them up and go home and sleep like a baby , I have been beaten up in handcuffs by an officer and the other officers did nothing.

[@Throwback-Films]

Perhaps I missed it but it's more than halfway through this video and I have not yet heard why this man is in prison. Wouldn't that matter?

[@trenacouncil9417]

Kinetik is in jail because he shot someone who was shooting at him first but he has become a lawyer in jail helping many with their cases

[@michaelwatson7298]

Murder

[@Dafold4life7]

The Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of the United States Ratified: November 18, 1865 by 3/4 of the Several States SECTION 1 - All persons shall have the right peaceably to assemble and Worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. SECTION 2 - The use of the Public Press shall not be obstructed; but criminal publications made in one State against the lawful institutions of another State shall not be allowed. SECTION 3 -The right of citizens to free and lawful Speech in public Assemblies shall not be denied. Access of citizens to the ballot box shall not be Obstructed either by Civil or Military Power. The Military shall always be subordinate to the existing Judicial authority over citizens. The privilege of the writ Habeas Corpus shall never be suspended in the presence of the Judicial Authority. SECTION 4 - The Militia of a State or of the United States shall not be Employed to invade the lawful rights of the People of any of the several States; but the United States shall not be hereby deprived of the right and power to defend and protect its property and rights within the limits of any of the States. SECTION 5 - Persons held to Service or Labor for life, in any State under the Laws thereof, may be taken into any Territory of the United States south of north latitude 36 degrees 30′, and the right to such Service or Labor shall not be impaired thereby, and the Territorial Legislature thereof shall have the exclusive right to make and shall make all needful rules and regulations for the protection of such right and also for the protection of such Persons; but Congress or any Territorial Legislature shall not have power to impair or abolish such right of Service in the Said Territory while in a Territorial condition without the consent of all the States, south of Said Latitude, which maintain such Service. SECTION 6 - Involuntary Servitude, except for crime, shall not be permanently established within the district set apart from the Seat of government of the United States; but the right of sojourn in such District with persons held to Service or Labor for Life, shall not be denied. SECTION 7 - When any territory of the United States south of north latitude 36 degrees 30′ shall have a population equal to the Ratio of Representation for one Member of Congress, and the people thereof shall have formed a Constitution for a Republican Form of Government, it shall be admitted as a State into the Union, on an equal footing with the other States; and the people may, in such Constitution,either prohibit or sustain the right to Involuntary Labor or Service, and alter or amend the Constitution at their will. SECTION 8 - The present right of representation in Section 2, Article l, of this Constitution, shall not be altered without the consent of all the States maintaining the right to Involuntary Service or Labor south of Latitude 36 degrees 30′, but nothing in this Constitution or its Amendments shall be construed to deprive any State south of Said Latitude 36 degrees 30′ of the right of Abolishing Involuntary Servitude at its will. SECTION 9 - The regulation and control of the right to Labor or Service in any of the States south of Latitude 36 degrees 30′ is hereby recognized to be exclusively the right of each State within its own limits; and this Constitution shall not be altered or amended to impair this right of each State without its consent; Provided, This Article shall not be construed to absolve the United States from rendering assistance to suppress Insurrections or Domestic Violence, when called upon by any State, as provided in section 4, Article 4, of this Constitution. SECTION 10 - No State shall pass any law in any way interfering with or obstructing the recover of Fugitives from Justice, or from Labor or Service, or any Law of Congress made under Article 4, Section 2, of this Constitution; and all laws in violation of this Section may, on complaint made by any person or State, be declared void by the Supreme Court of the United States. SECTION 11 - As a right of comity between the several States south of latitude 36 degrees 30’the right of transit with Persons held to Involuntary Labor or Service from one State to another shall not be obstructed, but such Persons shall not be brought into the States north of said Latitude. SECTION 12 - The traffic in Slaves with Africa is hereby forever prohibited on pain of death and the forfeiture of all the rights and property of persons engaged therein; and the descendants of Africans shall not be citizens. SECTION 13 - Alleged Fugitives from Labor or Service, on request, shall have a Trial by Jury before being returned. SECTION 14 - Alt alleged Fugitives charged with crime committed in violation of the law of a State shall have the right of Trial by Jury, and if such Person claims to be a citizen of another State, shall have a right of appeal or of a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States. SECTION 15 - All acts of any inhabitant of the United States tending to incite Persons held to Service or Labor to Insurrection or acts of Domestic Violence, or to abscond are here try prohibited and declared to be a penal offense and all the Courts of the United States shall be open to suppress and punish such offenses at the suit of any citizen of the United States or the suit of any “State”. SECTION 16 - All conspiracies in any State to interfere with lawful righ6 in any other State, or against the United States, shall be suppressed; and no State, or the people thereof, shall withdraw from this Union without the consent of three-fourths of all the States, expressed by an Amendment proposed and ratified in the manner provided in Article 5 of the Constitution. SECTION 17 - Whenever any State wherein Involuntary Servitude is recognized or allowed shall propose to abolish such Servitude, and shall apply for Pecuniary assistance therein, the Congress may, in its discretion, grant such relief not exceeding one hundred dollars for each person liberated But, Congress shall not propose such Abolishment or relief to any State. Congress may assist Free Persons of African decent to emigrate and colonize Africa. SECTION 18 - Duties on Imports may the imposed for Revenue; but shall not the excessive or prohibitory in amount. SECTION 19 - When all of the several States shall have Abolished Slavery, then and thereafter Slavery or Involuntary Servitude, except as a punishment for crime, shall never be established or tolerated in any of the States or Territories of the United States, and they shall be forever Free. SECTION 20 - The provisions of this Article relating to Involuntary Labor or Servitude shall not be altered without the consent of all the States maintaining such Servitude.

[@teamallyracing1780]

the struggle is real in america

[@MHiggins]

There are no perfect individuals fighting for reform. The problem with the criminal justice system is tied in with a lack of economic development and investment. The lack of job creation and decent paying wages. The use of prison labor to artificially depress wages. The irony is that these jobs that the prisoners are doing could be done by non prisoners or free people at living wages. But the prisoners at there lowered wages are generating massive profits for the companies and the government.

[@ajanay23]

I'm sure they turned off hot water.. it didn't just "go out" I support them

[@louiseelliott1362]

he took someones life, he gets nothing.........

[@haroldvonhelms8304]

yes have the inmates build housing and learn a skill or two, build the thing for the taxpayer and train them for a good way of life and to stay out of prison NOT SLAVE LABOR FOR A PRIVATE COMPANY

[@andrewderulio5138]

50 cent an hour?in the UK prison wages are 60p half a day or £1.25 full day.. the best paid jobs in the prison are £16 per week and 7days long in the kitchens.. so they havent got it that bad at all

[@copalpagan2407]

Andrew Derulio from my experience in a couple of UK prisons, you 'work' just get out of the cell. to break the monotony, the money really is irrelevant when you get canteen money sent in. US prisons are far more brutal and basically racist. Running prisons as a profit making enterprise definitely leads to abuses, it has to. Over crowding pays, bad food pays, working for peanuts pays. Unfortunately private company prisons are on the rise here too.

[@andrewderulio5138]

vapin scoundrel okay true story so what happens when people haven't got family and get nothing sent.. personally I was okay and had barber job so survived okay but it's not easy

[@JJJJ-gl2uf]

Inmates should be provided with decent housing, food, rehabilitation services/education, and humane treatment. Lost in all this is the crime "Kinetic Justice" was convicted of - capital murder while committing a robbery.

[@angelnguyen6412]

Awesome content!

[@JeanineH]

hmmmff...."Jeff sessions" figures ....

[@paulystp]

The trouble is that the officers act as judge and jury and hand down sentences, could you imagine police officers acting as judge and jury

[@lisakn27]

That prison needs some plants to go in and see what is going on.

[@GusHersey_Kuleanapono]

modern day slavery

[@haroldvonhelms8304]

the factory in a prison is saying the taxpayers is supporting a factory wrong, the prisoners should be making housing for the poor

[@thebertzbeatz]

No difference between this prison system and the one of developing countries such as the Republic of Congo. The hunchback does not see his hump, yet he's first to spot the others' hump. Extreme maltreatment of inmates should be taken in considerations.

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Incarcerated lives matter? Years before Black Lives did, why was this not important? For transparency there should be more available communication for those inside, rehabilitation and a reason to live, especially for non violent and those with release dates

[@unsungwindham]

Modern Day slavery. What can I do to help? How do I help make this abolished too?

[@pyril]

dont support the state, buy a property and live off your own

[@gregmcinnes1966]

ayyy who else watching after june 6th 2020 lol

[@saxokobe]

how about not committing crimes.....?

[@RaySmith79]

i would leave the state and move else where. the south is cruel but at the same time they give them to power to do this. if you don't live there they can't harm you. I live in Toronto Ontario Canada and if I had this problem I would move

[@sharktv3000]

It really isn’t fair that inmates are taking jobs from law abiding citizens. How can u compete with a guy making 2.00 a day?

[@Grenadier311]

While the conditions and specifics of incarceration are ostensibly horrible, this report does not detail the crimes committed by those jailed. Imbalanced.

[@Grenadier311]

Nor does this video acknowledge the victims.

[@AlaskanAndie]

PSYCHOLOGICAL PUNISHMENT AND SLAVERY IS NOT THE WAY TO HEAL BROKEN SPIRITS!!!!!

[@aussietrue612]

Ok, so.. Solitary Confinement for 3 years.. Yet he as a camera/mobile phone..! Sure..!

[@angieweston7102]

Huh I bet the man he killed and their families would disagree with him And y shouldn't they have to work they still need to pay for them selves to have clothes and food ....

[@jerilynbridges1740]

Angie Weston If he killed the man! There were several cases of prisoners who died and were found innocent! I bet if you met their families, some of the v” Victims families” would shut up!

[@willk8687]

Jeff Sessions!

[@mikestone8939]

Jail sucks. Don't commit crimes.

[@prontoworld5963]

Send the prisoners to fight isis?

[@kaseemdeenshazkasim8466]

Bismillah, when we treat humans like that, after sometime or over the years, condition will get out of hand, we need to be better or try to improve the sleeping places for the inmates, wish them better conditions, thanks, Sukhran, JazaakAllah, khudahafiz, too sad, To.Ont.Cad.

[@dudadam2816]

blessings of black blood.......

[@Elvis-guy1973]

but arnt these people criminals?, or are they in there for shoplifting.

[@thetalkingdevil2501]

I love how self phones are airing all of society's dirty laundries.

[@donsolo7860]

Ironically they’re called cellphones and people in jail using them to expose the corruption.

[@kaspervestergaard2383]

They should shut up and give back to the taxpayers.

[@StephenUrquhart-yj3wt]

Even the wrongly convict

[@prankmonkey650]

Don’t go to prison.

[@KidPersepolis]

Don’t post idiotic comments.

[@bodyloverz30]

Work is a key aspect of the reform, of the convicts in a correctional institution. It makes me wonder what it is like in Middle Eastern Prisons, with such anti-USA bias shown by Al Jazeera!

[@equinox95]

Land of the free? 🤔.

[@bethanydavis9023]

HAHA, *Yeah Right*

[@cannabisindica2224]

Bottom line is all of these whiners broke the law. Now they think they should be paid and treated like other citizens who didnt break the law. The majority of his arguments are baseless and absurd.

[@ELmayer636]

Poor poor immates who really commited crimes. Poor poor people, don't punished them. Punish me, who worked hard for a lifetime and barely got something,but pain in joints and bones, shaking hands and used knees. Freedom for everyone, oh yeah. Yaaaay, let them out and send them to Washington

[@humanitysreject5233]

You didn't listen. Your too selfish to understand. They never said they didn't want to work, but that they didn't want to work as slaves.

[@hindinetwork8722]

this is video will bring alot of motivation into poeple brain to do blast in usa thank you alzeera.

[@ROXXXZO]

After reading the comments it seems to me like prison sucks. Who would have guessed. I say we pay them 15 an hour, give them tempurpedic beds, tablets, smart phones, and tv. That's what most of the entire world does, like Russia and Iraq. However much compassion for people who just wanted to smoke some weed and take some shrooms. Let those guys out.

[@getrdunok]

wtfc

[@mymindistellingmenobutmycu5109]

Alabama, please kindly removed yourself from the Untied States and take Virginia with you

[@thetsar7384]

I.P. Yen hey, we tried already.

[@charliebrown6590]

The TSAR LOL

[@willk8687]

They should take Florida and Mississippi too.

[@Nebzz]

Those poor murderers deserve a better life.

[@rallyboyd7151]

Nebzz lol

[@casperward1164]

Hahaha

[@MrJohndoe845]

.50/hour is still higher than the compensation most menial labor makes in poor third world countries.

[@MrJohndoe845]

I have no idea what you are saying. If you're saying that in PPP terms folks in other countries are making more than $.50 per hour than you still wrong.

[@ianmuir3640]

America the most corrupt country in the world

[@constantine9268]

Listen no matter how many videos you make no matter how much complaining you do the inmate system in Alabama New York Philadelphia it's not going to change it's still going to stay the same 30 years from now you'll still be complaining about the same stuff they don't want to make prisons comfortable plain and simple I was in prison for 12 years in New York state and if you're going to do a crime do it in New York cuz the prisons Upstate there are wonderful

[@AlaskanAndie]

THE MOVEMENT IS IN EVERYTHING AND EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! GODS WILL BE DONE!!!!!!! PRAISE GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!!!! HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH HALLELUJAH !!!!!!! GODS WILL BE DONE!!!!!!!

[@VeganJustToAnnoyYou]

faith is mental illness.

[@watchthis12day]

Amerikkkan gulags!

[@MuhammadAli-uv9lf]

"i dont have a toothbrush, but i can show nuff skype"

[@sharktv3000]

I really can’t feel for people who are convicted murderers. What about the victims?

[@humanitysreject5233]

Are all of them murderers? Do you know the stats? The overwhelming majority of inmates are in there for drug related offences. But sure keep telling yourself that they're all evil murderers. Makes it easier to justify stripping away they're rights don't it?

[@sharktv3000]

@@humanitysreject5233 I never said all of them. I said I cannot feel for “convicted murderers”.

[@sharktv3000]

@@humanitysreject5233 And yes, people who cannot follow a society’s rules do not deserve to profit in said society. 1 person is a human tragedy, millions are statistics. We’re talking about 1% of society committing an outsize amount of crime.

[@nopotential]

"I demand to be treated humanely", well when you stop biting the other inmates maybe you'll be allowed to talk to them.

[@JesusGodHolySpirit3]

Well don't do the crime if you can't the time dude is this seriously an issue? dude whatever I don't have sypothy for prisoners and their winning parents parents don't have any credibility when they support their foolish sons/ daughters of course they should not be abused physically but prison labor should be allowed :D pay for their crime dude lol there is nothing wrong with making them work dude unless they are being starved or beaten dude its just work

[@sethwardell5269]

Ok dude so your saying dude that if you ever get locked up dude you are gonna be fine when they make u clean the showers dude and your own parents shouldn't support you dude? Sorry dude when I was locked up my parents were there for me dude and if my children ever get locked up dude I would be there for them dude no matter what they did dude..... great comment dude

[@Stillstoned1]

Isn't it great to live in a country where violent inmates know more about civil rights than non criminals? Young people, thank the almighty you live in this country. No other treats snowflakes this good. Veterans get treated way worse than inmate, break no laws, and cry way less.

[@JamesWhalen57]

BOOHOO...they're not being treated humanely.. Wonder how humanely they treated the victims of their crimes?

[@rallyboyd7151]

He's a murderer. Maybe he shouldn't have to work, but do the time if you do that crime.

[@rallyboyd7151]

And everything is about race and slavery, BS. Murderer

[@seemzish]

Get real. This treatment of prisoners is why no one gets rehabilitated and keeps committing crime when they are released. And if you're in for life, that's punishment enough and you should at least be granted basic human rights.

[@rallyboyd7151]

Carl Magnus Ekdahl I said he shouldn't have to work.

[@timsnow2204]

You mean those basic human rights the criminal denied his victims?

[@SupremeBakedBean]

You know the best way to not be treated poorly in jail? Don't break the law.

[@LA-mi1rh]

In some communities you can get arrested without committing a crime. There are countless examples of people released after being unjustly imprisoned. Also, if someone is a serial killer then yes I agree with you; but I do not believe all criminals should be treated the same. A person who doesn't pay taxes isn't a violent individual. And let's be honest, not all violent individuals would be that way were it not for circumstance and history.

[@starlight7830]

I willing to bet money that you're a corpse in a casket with a cell phone ! therefore you have no worries about breaking the law !

[@ai_serf]

Many laws are inhumane, and we should strive treat people better than they treated us, so as to break the cycles of hate and violence.

[@birdybirdforever]

What kind of society are we where we have people like you who think it's ok for the government to treat human beings inhumanely as punishment? Some of these criminals are there because they shoplifted or used pot. And it's ok to put them in a tiny room with no human contact for months at a time?

[@robertstewart4389]

You have a large percentage of inmates that are innocent both these inmates in this are innocent

[@oldwiccan]

ok what about islam treats everyone humane

[@stylz1]

Lot of bullshit coming out of these prisoner's mouths. I understand their grievances, but the way they try to frame things is bullshit.

[@robertstewart4389]

What's bullshit they are speaking facts that your afraid to research your self

[@rallyboyd7151]

TekkenJam 15 days in solitary cuz he had a phone. Yet he still has a phone lol. What does he expect? Follow the rules!

[@anongirl559]

In what way? Slavery isn't just some racial thing. Forced labor for little to no pay is the definition of slavery, & that's exactly what's going on in our prisons in the "freest nation in the world." Try sitting in a Deep South prison for a couple years & then see if it's bullshit.

[@Stillstoned1]

Don't you know all violent criminals turn a new leaf once they are in jail?