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Onyrleft

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3. Employee!?!?!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 01:35 AM

Jul 2017

Why should anyone profit from the labor of a prisoner? My grandfather's grandfather set trators on fire for profiting from the labor of captives.

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Union says some Kansas prison workers forced to work 16-hour shifts [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP

I did a 15 hour shift last week Skittles Jul 2017 #1

I did a lot of fifteen hour shifts TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #2

a couple of years ago I missed the entire Christmas season Skittles Jul 2017 #5

Employee!?!?! Onyrleft Jul 2017 #3

I don't believe that they were using the words "employee" and "prisoner" interchangeably. TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #4

Kansas for some reason, Maxheader Jul 2017 #6

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