In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
And if anyone is wondering how this is legal (yes, it is 100% legal), I hereby direct them to the US Constitution, 13th Amendment, Section 1,
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
In other words, slavery or involuntary servitude is fair game if you’ve been convicted of a crime.
Which is very fucked-up in my opinion. “Land of the Free”, my ass…
The article mentions some portion of the enslaved people having been detained by ICE, which doesn’t seem like quite the same thing as having been duly convicted of a crime
Tbf, many if not most of the people convicted were already poor people, especially minorities, who were railroaded by the prison slavery industrial complex even BEFORE ICE existed, let alone became one of the top 15 military forces in the world by funding.
True, it would still be terrible if they followed the law, but it’s worth noting if they don’t even bother.
So coincidental that the US has one of the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world, one that just happens to skew heavily non-white. Land of the free indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
I mean, it’s not a secret. That’s what the clause was almost explicitly for. Slaves freed, vagrancy or similar becomes a crime, former slaves become prisoners because people won’t give them jobs so they don’t live in a house (also at the judgement of legal/judicial officials as to what counted as housed), many go back to the same plantations/workhouses they were already at.
It didn’t slip through, it’s not a conspiracy theory, and it isn’t the quiet part being said out loud. It was always loud.
Damn. They had to reserve the darkest color solely for the USA … and El Salvador.
Land of the free
Home of the slave
When your morals are depraved and your workers are enslaved
🎵diarrhea 🎵 🎵diarrhea 🎵
cha cha cha?
Referring to Taylor Farms as the Diarrhea Lettuce Company is very appropriate.
Meanwhile, the $1.50 per hour “wage” for prisoners really is slave labor.
Let’s try to thoroughly end slavery - I know we can do that. And private prisons too, for that matter. There shouldn’t be profit involved in incarcerating people - this is crazy.
Emphasis in bold is mine:
It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.
In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
Products should be made to list when they’ve utilized prison labor.
If you go by the recent California ruling, that could soon be violation of free speech.
Given these circumstances, this is very true.
But then what happens when people learn to look for the suffering? I hear it really adds to the taste and feeling of freedom.
Everyone shitting their pants right now deserves it if they don’t work towards abolishing this crap
The diarrhea lettuce slavery company.
Hell of a legacy there, Bruce (Taylor)!
I remember hearing at some point that the FDA mistakenly identified Taylor Farms as the source and had issued an apology
Were they mistaken about being mistaken?
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company which was the source of the Trumporrhea Outbreak of 2026
If I was forced to pick YOUR lettuce, I’d shit in your food on purpose.
Some heros don’t use toilet paper.
STOP, you’ll only make the lettuce grow stronger!
$4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)
That leaves plenty of money for lawyers in any upcoming lawsuits.
The avg American pays much more than $4.75/hr for this labour tho as its living expenses are paid through taxes, in effect subsidizing the $4.75 wage.
Yes, but they’re producing more than $4.75 an hour worth of value against their will.
Of course.
And as usually the us government is projecting by introducing “forced labor tariffs” to Canada and EU
A million bucks can cover a multitude of sins.
Diarrhea runs in their family.
Forced labor leads to forced shit-geysering.
The only way to fix this is if all the prisoners have proper healthcare.
So…Politicians get good healthcare AND prisoners get good healthcare but the rest of us have to get by somehow?
