\n\n<\/a>\n“more than 14 million pounds of beef infected with rat feces\nprocessed by inmates were not recalled, in order to avoid drawing\nattention to how many products are made by prison labor.”\n<\/blockquote>\nIs this what you want for yourself and your children?\nIf not, it’s time to stop \nALEC crafting state laws to lock people up and then exploit them as slave labor.<\/a>\n
\nWe can start by not accepting a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.\n
\nUpdate 9:35 AM 6 Aug 2011: Fixed the links to the Democracy Now story.<\/a> Thanks for catching that, Barbara!\n
Here’s a bonus link to the story in The Nation.<\/a>\n\n-jsq\n
\nPS: This post owed to Cheryl Ann Fillekes.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you thought prison slave labor didn’t affect you, watch Mike Elk on Democracy Now today, New Expos\u00e9 Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor: “more than 14 million pounds of beef infected with rat feces processed by inmates were not recalled, in order to avoid drawing attention to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,202,140,324,1113,14,15,72,178],"tags":[8750,8744,8763,3973,8817,3976,8705,3975,8701,8730,7,75,3974,2712,3126,411,8749],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-alec","category-animals","category-cca","category-economy","category-education","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-agriculture","tag-alec","tag-animals","tag-beef","tag-cca","tag-democracy-now","tag-education","tag-feces","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-lowndes-county","tag-prison","tag-rat","tag-rehabilitation","tag-slavery","tag-usda","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-qR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}