"It's cheaper than slaves"!U.S. prisons were exposed forced to work, and the hourly salary was as low as 13 beauty points!

[Global Times Special Journalist in the United States Yingchen Global Times special reporter Liu Haoran] American Citizen Freedom Alliance (ACLU) released a report on the 15th to comprehensively squeeze the labor force facing the daily life of American prisoners. In fact, the American prison administration system has long been criticized by the media and public opinion for prisoners. Some well -known newspapers and periodicals have directly reprimanded the current prison administration system.

Mirand's complaint

The report shows that the total number of prisoners in prisoners in the United States and local prisons is about 1.2 million, of which 2/3 of them are facing "mandatory labor." Among these 800,000 prison workers, more than 80 % of them are engaged in the daily maintenance of the prison administration system, including repair, cooking, facility cleaning, and clothing washing. It is reported that as of May this year, the average annual salary in the United States was about $ 10.96. The hourly salary of these prison workers is less than $ 1 (from 13 to 52 cents). Not only that, many prison administrative institutions have not raised their salary for several years or even decades. Most of the 7 states including Florida arranged for the work of prisoners without labor remuneration.

Illinois in the United States complained that the annual income during his sentence was only $ 450 during his sentence. He said: "We save millions of dollars for the prison every year, but they have not benefited from it. These money is all used to support the prison politics system." As he said, the U.S. prison's expenses used to pay prisoners' salary are not unusual The budget is 1%, while the total value of products and services created by prison workers exceeds $ 11 billion each year. In addition, the salary of many prisoners was deducted from prison for "taxation, dietary fees, supervision costs and court fees", and over 70 % of the respondents could not bear the basic living expenses during the sentence of serving. According to statistics, the total cost of "reversing" the family members of the prisoners to the prison custody account is as high as US $ 2.9 billion, of which more than half of the families debt for it.

"It's cheaper than slaves"

About 8%of the US prison workers are outsourced to public projects, and about 6.5%of them are hired by enterprises. risk. The ACLU report shows that at least 30 states in the United States have listed prisoners as "emergency labor" for disaster and emergency, and at least 14 states hire prisoners to engage in forest fire fighting.

However, employers rarely take into account the safety and health of prisoners, and are more negligible to conduct vocational training on them. Most prison workers say they have never received formal job training, but they often perform dangerous operations without meeting the standards of safety operations and lack of protective equipment. Death cases are not uncommon. Regarding the casualties of this part of the person, there are no clear records of each prison. The American "Atlantic Monthly" commented as early as 2015: "These outsourcing prisoners are cheaper than slaves. After all, companies do not need to worry about their health."

During the new crown pneumonia's epidemic, at least 40 states across the United States requested prisoners to rush out epidemic prevention materials such as masks and hand washing fluids, deal with a large amount of medical waste produced by hospitals, carry corpses, create coffin, and dig a tomb. The prisoners engaged in these dangerous tasks are difficult to obtain corresponding protection. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, nearly 1/3 of the prison in the United States has infected with new coronary pneumonia, and 3,000 people have died of lack of medical medicine or detained environmental crowds.

Fighting, hungry rice, and culprit

Different from the general physical and physical workers outside the high wall, prison workers are completely subject to their own employers and have no right to refuse to work. Although the amendment to Article 13 of the US Constitution protects citizens from forced labor treatment, the law excludes criminal prisoners outside. As high as 76%of the respondents said that once they are weak or refusal to work, they will be punished by prisoners, such as imprisonment alone, reducing family vision, rejection of parole, or punishment applications. In addition, the prisoners also did not have the right to choose the type of work independently, and the work distribution was completely from the "decision -making decision of arbitrary, discrimination and discrimination, and even punishment."

At the age of 18, Kevin Johnson, who was sentenced to life for murder, was still serving his sentence as "social activist" and "reformers". He had long been against the US prison administration system to resist mandatory labor. In 2018, he published an article in the British Guardian, saying that he was often imprisoned alone, and he was transferred to the death penalty cell alone. Because of inciting prisoners to strike, he was sentenced to many of the beatings, hungry rice, and dehydration.

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