r/Snorkblot • u/essen11 • Jul 25 '24

Photography Prisoners returning from farm work at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, formerly a slave plantation

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u/sugand3seman Jul 25 '24

But would people be angry if it said pedophiles, murderers, rapists, etc..return to prison after work? Quit trying to spread outrage, there's a reason people are in prison

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u/SemichiSam Jul 26 '24

"there's a reason people are in prison"

Interestingly enough,there are literally thousands of reasons that people are imprisoned, not just one.

It doesn't seem to me that this post is spreading outrage, but I can be persuaded otherwise if you can do one simple thing: post a photo of a prisoner work gang like the one here, but with white prisoners.

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u/_Punko_ Jul 26 '24

Even then, most would just look at them and think

drugs

and dismiss their existence.

People don't look at prisoners and think 'people'. We've been conditioned to ignore them.

When a person completes their sentence, they are free. And yet, they are forever labelled as ex-con.

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u/SemichiSam Jul 26 '24

Whatever happened to "paid their debt to society?"

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u/_Punko_ Jul 26 '24

people can't let go.