Folks...the reference is to a mass expansion of carceral labor in response to the Grant's pass ruling. The last time I heard figures, which was probably 2022 or so, there were 800,000 inmates working, and producing $11B in goods and services. Grant's Pass and the criminalization of homelessness allows for a massive expansion of that carceral labor system - on a scale that the fash might believe can replace say 20M deported (or worse) ppl in the labor force. That's the plan the poster means.

Nobody said "prison labor doesn't exist already" - the poster said that using prison labor to replace the targets of Trump's fascist mass deportation program may well be what these nazis have in mind. And it's not crazy for the person to talk about that, in light of the Grant's Pass ruling effectively criminalizing homelessness. This is a country with tent cities in and around nearly ever major metro area - that's a lotta slave labor if unhoused people become prisoners.

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I actually have a suspicion that because it's physically impossible to hit the goals of deportation ( which literally everyone knew when the numbers were stated), the original plan was in addition to homelessness being conscripted, deportees awaiting trial could be set up to work for slave wages ('temporarily') to pick crops and similar.

But they haven't got housing or transport or structure or even the right pr spin for it. And they are fucking up food supply -now-.

@AnarchoNinaWrites RFK's 'wellness farms' seem like a potential labor source too. There are a whole lot of disabled folks on Medicaid that probably couldn't make it to work regularly on their own, but if you had them in work camps, you could probably make it happen through force and coercion.

Awful. This is like, the exact opposite of the future I'd hoped for.

@DarcMoughty I mean I think they want to send trans people there; like they can say a whole lotta people are "crazy" under the paradigm RFK is trying to create. So yeah, that absolutely might be on the table.