Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill…
No no see you don’t; they just have to do the paperwork that says you did, give you a lawyer who can’t go up against the state and convince a jury you’re being set up, and a panel of justice-boner peers who have been taught by decades of Fox News and “true crime” podcast media that “reasonable doubt” is just something we nod and wink at rather than abide by
And the system was designed for this. If they can’t own em legally when they’re innocent, certainly no one would offer humanity to a guilty slave.
And even if you beat all of that. You can still be crucified in the court of public opinion. As much as it may be cathartic to see x person being sent to prison for whatever reason there are significant issues with “naming and shaming” someone simply accused of a crime, of which there is a non zero chance that they are innocent. Sure name and shame them after they’re convicted if you must, to show everyone the system still works or whatever. But not before then because that stuff can seriously derail your life.