#prisoner exploitation

[firstoccupier]

The Silent Oppression: Wage Slavery in Iowa’s Prisons

By, Cliff Potts, WPS News, Editor-in-ChiefBaybay City | February 15, 2025 In the heartland of America, nestled within the confines of the Iowa State Penitentiary, lies a system that quietly perpetuates a new form of modern-day slavery. Here, incarcerated individuals engage in the cultivation of trees, ostensibly part of a rehabilitation program, yet tethered to an exploitative scheme that deeply…

[hellpuppetswithfleshymembers]

Someone’s bound to chime in saying that they get paid. If the amount you’re being paid does exactly fuck all to help your family, pay for an attorney, or at the very least qualify you for a program to forgive your property taxes while you’re incarcerated(depending on length of sentence), then it’s slavery. Having been “briefly” locked up in Louisiana, I can tell you that given the equal likelihood of being murdered by either your fellow prisoners or the guards, there ought to be hazard pay for that shit in a state that’ll give you felony time for a misdemeanor.

“The ones you can work”

[spellofwinter]

insert john cena are you sure about that meme here

[primus-why]

I love the idea of Ratchet being captured while badly injured. It wasn't necessarily on purpose-- he knows the Cons would love to take him prisoner in order to utilize his medical skills, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Once they realized he was a medic they pulled him from the rubble and got him on a slab pretty quickly all things considered. The trouble is there's a reason the Cons value medical expertise-- he's bleeding out, they don't have enough supplies, and at this rate Ratchet knows he's gonna die. So with whatever strength he can muster he gets the attention of one of the grunts working on him.

Ratchet: H... hey... I need you... to pass on a message...

Con 1: To who, your Prime? Not gonna happen.

Con 2: Yeah we don't really do the 'any last words' thing.

Ratchet: No... *wheeze* to Deadlock.

Con 1 & 2: *go still*

Ratchet: Tell 'im... I'll... be waiting... for him...

Con 2: Wait a klik...

Con 1: ... You don't think--?

Con 2: -- Frag! Oh frag!! His vitals!!! Dealock is gonna kill us!!

Con 1: Scrap! Get Soundwave on the line, have him patch to the DJD!

Con 2: He's not gonna make it! I don't want them to know my face!

Con 1: It. won't. matter. If we wait, it'll look worse!

Con 2: Oh Primus, I hope they don't pick up...

Con 1: Just go!!!

Ratchet: ... I'm waitin' to... kick his aft... *passes out*

[videoreligion]

Happy #FrancoFriday !

99 Women (1969)

[meltyman666]

The first potential law passed in the US will likely have imprisoned migrants working in agriculture/traditionally exploitative jobs for “slave wages” and inhumane hours. The private prison industrial complex will profit heavily from the Laken Riley Act.

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

we need more feminist horror

[penderbend]

going back to s3 malevolent and good LORD this shit is so good. forgot how absolutely insane it is. easily my fav season (though i do love me my medieval jaunts) this just has something mixed in it thats so damn captivating

[prisoner012]

Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom

Here are a few more works on the theme of this film

[aloeverawrites]

Is there an anti slave labour, anti human exploitation symbol that’s as regulated as vegan ones? Because I really feel there should be, we should make it as easy as possible for people to boycott.

[videoreligion]

Happy #FrancoFriday !

99 Women (1969)

[jimmyscanongf]

i give jimmy a tragic past filled with ten thousand traumas partly because i like making him my poor little meow meow woobie and partly because i love vividly imagining him going through horrible shit

[lianico]

Anybody else just… I love Roblox

Ahhhhhh

[bloodybosom]

Barbed Wire Dolls

[evpath]

Modern Australia Slave Trade

Not many people in So-Called-Australia know about its history of slavery, nor its present slave trade.

Up until the 1960s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were used as slave labour. One form of this was the apprenticeship system used during the period in which the government kidnapped and applied eugenicist policy to aboriginal and Torres strait islander children.

These forms of slavery would often have enslaved people work at either their school, which usually meant a catholic juvenile prison existing for the purpose of eugenics, or at a domestic or agrarian property. Today across so-called-Australia similar forms of slavery continue, sanctioned by the government. Similar to the way in which the state would force Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders into domestic labour, The state now forces Prisoners into both public and private labour. Prisoners, a population in which Disabled, Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other marginalized populations make up large portions of, are legally allowed to be forced into labour.

Here is a report by Anti-Slavery Australia:

The following website is run by the New South Wales state government and allows you to rent slave labour in the form of Imprisoned Persons:

Not only can companies rent enslaved people, but the government refuses to reveal which companies use slave labour. This means that we have no idea which companies use slave labour, including local businesses which can use slave labour.

This is happening today. Slavery has been in So-Called-Australia since colonization. The Commonwealth of Australia is a colonial regime occupying stolen land seized through genocide.

The military acts in service of US imperialism. The police target radicalized people and swear loyalty to a monarch. Stolen land is used for commercial enterprise, military bases, prisons and other oppressive forces. The federal government endorses Israels right to exist, which means they endorse the colonization of Palestine. Refugees are kept on island prisons for years before being deported back to countries where they will be killed.

While the Commonwealth of Australia may seem like an amazing country with great rights and lots of protection, that is only because you have the privilege to not be effected by the mass exploitation and suffering which the Commonwealth of Australia is built on.

If anyone wants to add anything to this post or correct me on anything please do!

[prisoner012]

Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (Rubber)

Amid the camp’s scorching dust, the heavy rubber dresses bake against their searing skin; every movement cuts, and even a moment’s rest becomes an unbearable ordeal.

Inspired by the 1994 women-in-prison exploitation film Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom.