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Ryan Clancy: “The idea that we're profiting and that we're enriching…”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

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Ryan Clancy interview by Mike from PA

Published | Video Starts at 15:23

It's not just that we try to change those little things. We change the vendor. We make it not a monopoly. You point out the fact that capitalism is behind all this. The idea that we're profiting and that we're enriching private companies with indentured labor within our institutions is abhorrent. So you don't just literally legalize slave. Labor, it's literally slave labor. You are extracting value through uncompensated work. And it's. So we have private slave owners now. (15:23–15:32)

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Asserts that the current system profits private companies through the use of unpaid labor from incarcerated individuals.

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