The food you eat or brush you’re using may have been made by a worker earning less than a dollar an hour — not in the developing world, but in the invisible workforce inside America’s prisons. Share this if you oppose prison labor for profit.

Source: http://ow.ly/iwTlY

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The owners and investors in private for-profit prisons (a substantial and growing sector of the American prison system) make millions of dollars off the of the unpaid or underpaid labor of prisoners. Why should a tiny minority of already-super-rich capitalist assholes be allowed to make even more money off of the slave-labor of poor people and people of color (i.e., the majority of prisoners), most of whom are locked up for nonviolent offenses such as drugs or petty theft?!

If you can’t see what’s wrong with a system that lets a tiny handful of rich people directly financially BENEFIT from — and therefore have an interest in perpetuating — the imprisonment of millions of Americans, then you are truly beyond hope.