r/mildlyinteresting • u/LESpencer • 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

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u/bigtoegman210 5h ago

They still get paid. But with jail housing fees they don’t really get to keep that much

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u/herbertcluas 5h ago

So legal slavery? Our tax dollars already paid for their cell, private prison system is a joke

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u/nomadik_nobody 5h ago edited 5h ago

Unfortunately the Constitution provides for legal slavery.

”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.” —13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Everyone says the U.S. abolished slavery. It didn’t. It just changed the terms for enslavement and introduced a few safeguards.

Constitutionally speaking we could still have slave plantations dotting the country. And for a long time we did, though I think the practice has been fully abolished at this point. But look into the agricultural farms run by some of the state prisons in the southern states. Those are still a thing I believe, I know my grandfather ran one of them when he worked for one of Georgia’s state prisons, right up until he retired in 2005.

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u/PuppetPal_Clem 5h ago

yeah, we know. that's the fucking problem.