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Why is it supposed to be funny? It’s true that the majority is black and Angola is a nation in Africa, is that embarrassing to blacks?

Calling the slave plantation "Angola" to mock the Black people forced to work there is clearly a reference to America's history of chattel slavery of Black people.

They helped keep me alive because I was facing 20 years at 100% and had a lot of suicidal thoughts.

The heat at the Angola slave plantation literally kills people and causes them to self harm.

Oh did I mention this is a juvenile prison?

Death to America

So you want to use this case to abolish any work opportunities for inmates across the US?

The concept of prison labor isn't inherently bad, I have nothing against gulags for example.

I want to abolish the ability to profit from it because it incentivised the creation of the largest prison population on Earth. America is literally the worst on Earth, by the numbers, and it's solely because of the perverse incentive structure created by for-profit prison slave labor.

I also think much of the work is pointless and sadistic makework (like forcing people to water fields with paper cups in extreme heat - how is that supposed to make people not want to kill themselves?) That's just torture for the fun of the prison guards, not work.