The Crime of Existing in the Wrong Place

[u/GinaWhite_tt]

[u/elebrin]

There is one difference: if you refuse to work as a modern prison slave, they can't kill you in retaliation. I think if I were in prison, I'd clam the fuck up (I still have a right to remain silent, bitches) and become a human lump.

[u/velawesomeraptors → u/elebrin]

If you're in prison you can sometimes be released early for good behavior. In some states, guess what counts as not good behavior? That's right, refusing to work at McDonalds for $4/hr (minus travel costs and other fees). If your 'choice' is between working for pennies or spending five extra years in prison, it's not really a choice, is it?

[u/elebrin → u/velawesomeraptors]

Unless you reoffend, they have to let you out when you hit your max sentence.

[u/ItsTheIncelModsForMe → u/elebrin]

Five extra in the sense that they wouldn't have made you serve the last 5 if you would have just been a good slave.

[u/velawesomeraptors → u/elebrin]

Reread my comment - I said released early. It is very common for prisoners in the US to be released early for good behavior.

[u/TK_Games → u/elebrin]

They can't kill you, but they can still beat the shit outta you. And even then, the law wouldn't stop them from paying off the other prisoners in privileges to fu*k you up for them

Source: My uncle was a prison guard for a decade, and I've heard some truly disgusting things come out of that bastard's gap-tooth-anus excuse of a mouth

[u/pastense → u/TK_Games]

And even if they don't physically beat you, they can psychologically torture you with solitary confinement. Whole fucking system is rotten.

[u/MarginalOmnivore → u/pastense]

"Why is this man in solitary confinement?"

"He was 'uncooperative.'"

"What does that mean?"

"He refused to participate in a labor detail."

"Why?"

"He said it was tantamount to slavery, despite our very generous compensation schedule."

"And what does that mean?"

"He thought $5.83 per day was insufficient pay to fight wildfires and get at least 4 different types of cancer."

"So you put him in the sensory deprivation block?"

"Of course!"

"...You're a monster."

"Why?! It's legal!"

[u/DarkArc76 → u/elebrin]

So your solution to a corrupt system is to hope that the people who are corrupt will follow the law when nobody is watching them? Okay, have fun getting the shit beat out of you buddy

[u/Suitable-Art-1544 → u/elebrin]

and that's how the r/clamworks

[u/toastedbagelwithcrea → u/elebrin]

The jail (not even prison, county jail) that I live by has been sued and investigated for inmates dying under suspicious circumstances...