Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to US News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

apnews.com

external-link
message-square
24
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
81
external-link

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

apnews.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to US News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
message-square
24
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.
  • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 years ago

    What cursed country do you live in?

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      2 years ago

      Japan, our justice system is…let’s go with “bad”.

      • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        I THOUGHT ye were Welsh…?

        • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          I am guessing from the username, good pickup. Mother is welsh, but I’ve lived basically my entire adult life in Japan.

      • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        You mean that country that have a justice system that is so bad that they still depend on private law enforcement firms of yakuza?

        • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 years ago

          Hey we don’t outsource everything! Sometimes we just hold suspects in custody under inhumane conditions until they break and sign a confession. Thus our 99% conviction rate.

US News@lemmygrad.ml

us_news@lemmygrad.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 82 users / day
  • 190 users / week
  • 507 users / month
  • 1.27K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 2.37K subscribers
  • 1.31K Posts
  • 3.46K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org