villanelle-dyke:the-bi-bilingual: cinema-show:z-o-u-n-d-s: gahdamnpunk:WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK The comp
villanelle-dyke:the-bi-bilingual: cinema-show:z-o-u-n-d-s: gahdamnpunk:WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK The company isn’t boasting about using cheap/unpaid/forced penal labor.It’s a project offering voluntary employment opportunities with fair trade wages to incarcerated women, allowing them to amass decent savings and avoid recidivism (i.e., having to return to prostitution, drug muling, and the other poverty-related crimes as soon as their sentences are up, because they’re right back in poverty where they started).No, it’s not the all-or-nothing Tumblr justice solution™ of magically abolishing the PIC overnight, but it’s a significant improvement over the literal slave labor most corporations employ, while raking in the entirety of a prisoner’s surplus and setting them up for recidivism. Y'all….this isn’t slave labor the way the vast majority of prusin labor is. They have a 30 hour work week and pay their employees a LIVING WAGE. Also the company was founded after talking to women in prison about their lives and needs This! Is Why! You Read! The Entire! Fucking! Article! people will read only what they want to see out of all the information and then act horrified when they see it -- source link
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