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The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 days ago

Well now this really makes for a trio of facts that paint a horrifying picture:

  • Private, for profit prisons exist
  • Prison slave labour is legal
  • Homelessness can now be made illegal

Guess I should buy some stocks in companies that use prison labour.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://marketrealist.com/p/companies-that-use-prison-labor/#what-are-some-companies-that-use-prison-labor

  • Verizon uses inmates to provide telecommunication services.
  • Fidelity Investments uses some held assets to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that promotes inmate work.
  • Kmart and JCPenney use inmate labor in Tennessee to make denim products.
  • Walmart uses prison labor to clean barcodes so products can be resold.
  • Some cheese and fish from Whole Foods comes from prison labor.
  • Circuit boards from IBM come from Texas prisoners.
  • Wendy's and McDonald's use prison labor to process beef for their food products.
  • Amazon uses BOP labor for cleaning and sorting damaged goods
[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

Also Idaho potatoes are largely prison labor. McD's and Five Guys buy a lot of them

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Idaho only has prisoners, potatoes, and gun-totin' white supremacists.

What else are they gonna do?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I thought Kmart went out of business?

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Wikipedia states:

Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.

But also

On January 22, 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the leadership of its then-chairman Charles Conaway and president Mark Schwartz.

So they've been a subsidiary to several other companies since then.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ah, so they're not quite dead yet, they're just headed for a hedge fund buying them and killing them off.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago

Add Raytheon to that list.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Anecdotes aside, prison stocks skyrocketed after Trump's election. Anybody wonder why?

[-] root@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

The fact that prisons have stocks..

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Back in my day, the stocks were kept in the public square.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago

Because Hilary campaigned on banning private prisons which caused their stocks to collapse for a year until she lost.

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