The Furniture Damaged in the Capitol Riot Will Almost Certainly Be Rebuilt By Incarcerated People For Pennies

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The day after pro-Trump rioters forced their way into the Capitol building to take selfies and smear shit on the walls, the people responsible for cleaning up other people’s messes on the Hill were back on the job, using leaf blowers to collect trash and sliding mops across the floors. The wreckage included pieces of broken office furniture that Capitol workers wheeled out in carts. Photographs of a jumble of apparently disassembled desks were circulated online.\n

dedicated to showcase the uninspired credenzas and workstations that are standard all around the Capitol, many of which were trashed by a roving band of white nationalists and conspiracy theorists this week.

Almost exactly two years ago, a bill that would have functionally ended Unicor’s relationship with the government was voted out of committee along party lines, with Republicans overwhelmingly in favor of keeping their reliance on cheap prison labor intact.

 

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dellcam The display furniture in the Capitol complex, like these cases, is made in the shops underneath the Russell Senate Office Building — AOC trades are awesome workers. Better pic would be the furniture in the trashed Parliamentarian's Office. Signed, Senate worker for almost 18 yrs

Desks lol

I'm sorry, this is really trivial at a very serious time, but it reads like the incarcerated people will BE the desks rather than build them. And it just might have been the thing that broke my brain.

dellcam Did you count room and board and the cost to keep them locked up for the sake of public safety? They make more money than most free Americans do. They simply have bigger bills to pay.

So, maybe the people that destroyed them can help build new

💥slave labor still thriving in America 💥as you’ve pointed out

Too bad it can't be work performed by some *newly* incarcerated people, like in the next few weeks.

it wouldn't be America's highest legislative body, if they didn't use some form of 'involuntary servitude.'

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