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Mike Bloomberg exploited prison labor to make 2020 Presidential campaign phone calls

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Tags: usa, politics, 2020 us presidential election, criminal justice, prisons, michael bloomberg, democratic party, politicians, exploitation, prisoners, slavery.modern, phone banks, author.john washington, source.the intercept
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/24/mike-bloomberg-2020-prison-labor/

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Authors
John Washington
Published
Dec 24 2019
Word count
776 words

3 comments

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    heady
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    Does Bloomberg have a policy to end prison labour? Otherwise he believes in the practice and is opposed only to the aesthetic.

    “We didn’t know about this and we never would have allowed it if we had. We don’t believe in this practice and we’ve now ended our relationship with the subcontractor in question.”

    Does Bloomberg have a policy to end prison labour?

    Otherwise he believes in the practice and is opposed only to the aesthetic.

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      skybrian
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      Publishing and spreading stories like this (rather than about which candidates have policies to end prison labor) gives politicians lots of incentive to focus on aesthetics. If he did have a...

      Publishing and spreading stories like this (rather than about which candidates have policies to end prison labor) gives politicians lots of incentive to focus on aesthetics.

      If he did have a policy on prison labor then the story would be about hypocrisy.

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      1. heady
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        You raise a good point. However there does need to be reporting on prison labour in order to rouse the public to care about such policy and being attached to a political campaign may give the...

        You raise a good point.

        However there does need to be reporting on prison labour in order to rouse the public to care about such policy and being attached to a political campaign may give the profile necessary to do that.

        Also to be clear my question is sincere, I am not american so I do not know candidates policy in depth.

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