Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings into compost, his right leg got pulled into a chute with a large spiraling augur.
“I could hear ‘crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch,’” Sanchez said. “I couldn’t feel anything, but I could hear the crunch.”
He recalled frantically clawing through mounds of manure to tie a tourniquet around his bleeding limb. He then waited for what felt like hours while rescuers struggled to free him so he could be airlifted to a hospital. His leg was amputated below the knee.
Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of prisoners are put to work every year, some of whom are seriously injured or killed after being given dangerous jobs with little or no training, The Associated Press found. They include prisoners fighting wildfires, operating heavy machinery or working on industrial-sized farms and meat-processing plants tied to the supply chains of leading brands. These men and women are part of a labor system that – often by design – largely denies them basic rights and protections guaranteed to other American workers.
Hickman’s Family Farms: our workers may not be cage free, but the chickens are.
Slavery never ended. A carveout for slavery is still legal slavery. We haven’t ended slavery in America at all, just changed the legal method of obtaining a slave and making it so only corporations get to have slaves.
We’re such a fucking disgusting sorry excuse for a country.
(For those “JuSt LeAvE tHeN” I wish I could, but any country worth a damn has strict immigration requirement$ I don’t meet…)
i wonder which other countries do the same?
looks like its poland, brazil, rwanda, belarus, vietnam, egypt, myanmar, mongolia, china, mali, zimbabwe, turkmenistan, russia, libya, eritrea, north korea.
Weird that you left off France, the UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Korea.
The difference is that in these countries prisoners only have to work for the prison itself, doing stuff like cleaning, washing dishes, etc. They can work for a private company if they wish, but that’s not required.