Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside, even when shelter space is lacking

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The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

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Well now this really makes for a trio of facts that paint a horrifying picture:

  • Private, for profit prisons exist
  • Prison slave labour is legal
  • Homelessness can now be made illegal

Guess I should buy some stocks in companies that use prison labour.

https://marketrealist.com/p/companies-that-use-prison-labor/#what-are-some-companies-that-use-prison-labor

  • Verizon uses inmates to provide telecommunication services.
  • Fidelity Investments uses some held assets to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that promotes inmate work.
  • Kmart and JCPenney use inmate labor in Tennessee to make denim products.
  • Walmart uses prison labor to clean barcodes so products can be resold.
  • Some cheese and fish from Whole Foods comes from prison labor.
  • Circuit boards from IBM come from Texas prisoners.
  • Wendy's and McDonald's use prison labor to process beef for their food products.
  • Amazon uses BOP labor for cleaning and sorting damaged goods

Also Idaho potatoes are largely prison labor. McD's and Five Guys buy a lot of them

Idaho only has prisoners, potatoes, and gun-totin' white supremacists.

What else are they gonna do?

I thought Kmart went out of business?

Wikipedia states:

Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.

But also

On January 22, 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the leadership of its then-chairman Charles Conaway and president Mark Schwartz.

So they've been a subsidiary to several other companies since then.

Ah, so they're not quite dead yet, they're just headed for a hedge fund buying them and killing them off.

Anecdotes aside, prison stocks skyrocketed after Trump's election. Anybody wonder why?

The fact that prisons have stocks..

Back in my day, the stocks were kept in the public square.

Because Hilary campaigned on banning private prisons which caused their stocks to collapse for a year until she lost.