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I'm not sure why this is surprising. Prison labor in the US is an extensively documented horror.
by 2024throwaway 2y ago
I'm not sure why this is surprising. Prison labor in the US is an extensively documented horror.
- paleotrope 2y agoYou didn't read the part about it being in Belgium?
- culi 2y agoWhich, btw, is currently on a nationwide prison strike since early April.[0] At least Belgium prison strikes get some press. Unlike the US ones. In 2016 we had the largest prison strike in this nation's history[1] and I didn't see a peep about it in any major newspaper [0] https://www.brusselstimes.com/998003/indefinite-prison-strike-in-full-swing-across-belgium https://www.brusselstimes.com/998003/indefinite-prison-strik... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S._prison_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S._prison_strike