Claims of slave labor in Blakely

Interesting...

From http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1610840&nav=5kZQKLdz:
 
A group of citizens stages weekly protests through the streets, claiming, among other things, that the sheriff forces jail inmates to perform personal work, but Sheriff Jimmie Murkerson says that didn't happen.
(...) As to claims he used some of his inmates for slave labor-- "Yes I helped inmates get jobs, even though some of those were with my family, but everyone got paid a legal wage." Money he says was used to help inmates pay fines to get out of jail.

It doesn't sound like "slave labor" to me. At least, nothing compared to the slave labor back then. Sometimes, using exaggerated expressions distract from the actual suffering that took place. Just like, for example, people nowadays are way too quick to call something a "Holocaust" of this or a "Holocaust" of that.

08:24 AM