Prison Management: “But parolees don’t perform legal slave labor and can’t be tortured on a daily basis!”
Extend minimum wage laws to inmates. If you’re going to make them work, you have to pay them at least minimum wage.
You can garnish their wages to cover victim restitution, child support, alimony, judgments, etc, so they might not be the ones actually receiving the money. But you will be paying them.
Well first they need to remove that bit about slavery being totally cool if your slaves are felons.
It’s constitutionally permitted, not constitutionally protected. Congress, or the states, can legislate it away.
Parole isn’t the issue when we have more people incarcerated per capital than anywhere. The problems go back to insufficiently restrained capitalism and systemic racism.
Fix it with better social policies so fewer people are poor, so fewer are resorting to drugs instead of actual mental health treatment, and so certain people aren’t perpetually targeted by law enforcement steeped in systemic racism.
Oh and legalize drugs because the war failed decades ago and was only ever intended to suppress certain people.
And eliminate privately owned/run prisons so there’s no longer a profit motive.
That would make too much sense and loose big prison corpo too much money.
