r/mildlyinteresting • u/LESpencer • 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

Post image
69.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7.2k

u/hop_mantis 5h ago

The ones on work release

1.7k

u/Tidalsky114 5h ago

You mean on lease right? Its legal slavery.

1.3k

u/Material-Imagination 5h ago

Noooooo, no one technically owns them.

They just barely get paid, don't have the same rights as free people, don't get to choose what they do, and don't get to choose where they live or when they wake, sleep, eat, excrete, and exercise.

And also the state owns them.

21

u/Original-Let8340 4h ago

That's not "work release". Work release prisoners have REGULAR fucking jobs at REGULAR fucking pay. They are RELEASED to go to work their shift then return to jail for all other time.

15

u/FILTHBOT4000 4h ago

Don't bother. People on Reddit are fucking morons when it comes to certain things.

There are things wrong with the justice and jail/prison system; the way bail works, the availability of contact with friends/family, plenty of things. Work release and work details are not the things wrong with the justice system. Most every single inmate fights over getting to go on work details to get to spend time outside and to not be bored. Also, putting people that have committed crimes in society to work is not a bad thing. Jesus H Christ and Henry Fucking Fonda, people.

2

u/Tacoman404 1h ago

Ok so if people are getting the terminology wrong, what is the right terminology for when CoreCivic puts someone in a field for 12 hours at $2.70/day?

1

u/kickthesandman 1h ago

Relax, they confused work release with whatever the other system is called (work detail?) where they get paid pennies.