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put it in a letter, jane austen

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i hope britta perry just goes “GOD FORBID WOMEN DO ANYTHING” in the movie after committing like a literal crime or something. she is the arbiter of that joke. it would heal my soul, truly and wholly

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gahdamnpunk

WHAT THE ENTIRE FUCK

The company isn’t boasting about using cheap/unpaid/forced penal labor.

It’s a project offering voluntary employment opportunities with fair trade wages to incarcerated women, allowing them to amass decent savings and avoid recidivism (i.e., having to return to prostitution, drug muling, and the other poverty-related crimes as soon as their sentences are up, because they’re right back in poverty where they started).

No, it’s not the all-or-nothing Tumblr justice solution™ of magically abolishing the PIC overnight, but it’s a significant improvement over the literal slave labor most corporations employ, while raking in the entirety of a prisoner’s surplus and setting them up for recidivism.

Y'all….this isn’t slave labor the way the vast majority of prusin labor is. They have a 30 hour work week and pay their employees a LIVING WAGE. Also the company was founded after talking to women in prison about their lives and needs

This! Is Why! You Read! The Entire! Fucking! Article!

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hugewoman

This really is one of those things that, on the surface and without searching for further context, comes across as absolutely fucking abominable. But it’s women helping other women to make the best of a horrific situation they can’t fix.

The fact that these women are incarcerated is terrible, but what she’s helped them accomplish and the way she’s helped them improve their situation is so wonderful

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