SANTA RITA, Calif.—In Alabama and Louisiana, the state prisons “sell” their convicts to private companies, many of them fast food firms, to go out and work, for a dollar or two a day. Unions call that, literally, slavery. But Santa Rita, Calif.
I don’t get it, how is the California supreme Court justifying not paying pre trial labor. The text of the amendment is clear and their state laws mean dick to it:
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
Edit: I understand now, the California supreme Court didn’t rule on constitutionality at all. They essentially said these petitioners have no place in statute and their claims for California minimum wage were insufficient. Doesn’t mean the entire federal civil rights case is over though for enslaving pretrial defendants, just that any restitution they get will be shittier
And the old supreme Court ruling on this issue is that pretrial inmates can be used for housekeeping. Which now suddenly means over 40 hours a week of “housekeeping” for private companies in California mega jails.
I don’t get it, how is the California supreme Court justifying not paying pre trial labor. The text of the amendment is clear and their state laws mean dick to it:
Edit: I understand now, the California supreme Court didn’t rule on constitutionality at all. They essentially said these petitioners have no place in statute and their claims for California minimum wage were insufficient. Doesn’t mean the entire federal civil rights case is over though for enslaving pretrial defendants, just that any restitution they get will be shittier
And the old supreme Court ruling on this issue is that pretrial inmates can be used for housekeeping. Which now suddenly means over 40 hours a week of “housekeeping” for private companies in California mega jails.