トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「How Prison Labor is the New American Slavery and Most of Us Unknowingly Support it (JUNE 13, 2016 @ returntonow.net ) If you buy products or services from any of the 50 companies listed below (and you likely do), you are supporting modern American slavery . American slavery was technically abolished in 1865, but a loophole in the 13th Amendment has allowed it to continue “as a punishment for crimes” well into the 21st century. Not surprisingly, corporations have lobbied for a broader and broader definition of “crime” in the last 150 years. As a result, there are more (mostly dark-skinned) people performing mandatory, essentially unpaid, hard labor in America today than there were in 1830. . With 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prison population, the United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world. No other society in history has imprisoned more of its own citizens. There are half a million more prisoners in the U.S. than in China, which has five times our population. Approximately 1 in 100 adults in America were incarcerated in 2014. Out of an adult population of 245 million that year, there were 2.4 million people in prison, jail or some form of detention center. The vast majority – 86 percent – of prisoners have been locked up for non-violent, victimless crimes, many of them drug-related. . The full list of companies implicated in exploiting prison labor includes: Bank of America Bayer Cargill Caterpillar Chevron Chrysler Costco John Deere Eli Lilly and Company Exxon Mobil GlaxoSmithKline Johnson and Johnson K-Mart Koch Industries McDonald’s Merck Microsoft Motorola Nintendo Pfizer Procter & Gamble Pepsi ConAgra Foods Shell Starbucks UPS Verizon WalMart Wendy’s . While not all prisoners are “forced” to work, most “opt” to because life would be even more miserable if they didn’t, as they have to purchase pretty much everything above the barest necessities (and sometimes those too) with their hard-earned pennies. Some of them have legal fines to pay off and families to support on the outside. Often they come out more indebted than when they went in. . #abolishprisons」7月13日 6時35分