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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

sourced by forced prison slave labor.

this one is news to me. how?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.

One line in and already sounds like a horrible parody of the states that we'd call too on the nose

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s unfortunately constitutionally protected to use prisoners as slaves, so this is a nationwide problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Still sounds like a dystopian parody.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It certainly does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

holy shit