IF YOURE NOT AWARE of what Ida B. Wells was exposing about the Convict Leasing System in 1893, it will quite naturally be difficult for you to understand what I mean when I say NOTHING HAS CHANGED since 1893. YOU MUST KNOW YOUR HISTORY if you are to understand the present and future. Your enemies their intent, sentiment and policies toward you have not changed... California Attorney General Kamala Harris told ThinkProgress Wednesday she is concerned her department created a perception that the state’s prisons have a goal of “indentured servitude.” Harris was responding to revelations that lawyers in her office argued in court without her knowledge that a program to parole more prisoners would drain the state’s source of cheap labor. “The way that argument played out in court does not reflect my priorities,” she said, adding that she fears state lawyers taking that position will create more distrust in the criminal justice system. Harris worried that heavily policed communities may suspect the state has an “ulterior motive,” especially when it seems “the penalty may not be proportionate to the crime.” CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SEC. 6. Slavery is prohibited. Involuntary servitude is prohibited EXCEPT to punish crime. Sorry AG Harris, but your California Constitution says that is exactly what you are doing. Furthermore, involuntary servitude is just another word for slavery. In a new chapter in California’s years-long battle over how and when to reduce the population of its unconstitutionally crowded prisons, lawyers in Harris’ division pushed back against a federal order to expand an early parole program, arguing that it would deplete their stock of prison labor, especially inmates who fight wildfires. (link shared from Sista Dez Nzuri) Source: thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/19/3594488/kamala-harris-prison-labor-indentured-servitude/
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