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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (16 children)

The right to a fair wage while imprisoned. Or else your justice system only serves to produce slaves.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Slavery is legal in prisons here in the U.S.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Yes, precisely.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    written into the constitution

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's why the rights of people today shouldn't be dictated by a document written over a century ago. Idolizing a document over human rights is terrible.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Idolizing a document over human rights is terrible.

    Well, to be clear, human rights, other than being a vague philosophical concept, are also a document. Much younger, and much more sensible and uncompromising, but still also a document.

    Hopefully if new rights are deemed to be needed, they can be added.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I mean, if a document has specific rights written on it and society moves forward and has need for new rights to be added then we should be ready to rewrite and add rights as opposed to treating the document as divine and unchangeable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Should they then also pay rent in prison? :D (not serious)

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh boy, let me tell you about pay-for-stay.

    At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt - AP News (2022)

    Essentially, that already happens. They get charged for rent. And food. And medical care. And whatever else can be charged.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I know you're not being serious, but for the sake of the argument, if we're going to force a person, against their will, to be in a certain place for a certain amount of time then we should have to cover all the basic needs that that person may have.

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