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Dessalines@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml ·
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California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.

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California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.

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    Unless no one volunteers. Then they’re forced to do it upon threat of torture and further loss of rights, and usually more prison time added.

    There is nothing voluntary about labor coerced.

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      Citation needed.

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        Have you tried thinking?

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