Why do some people think labor in prison is slavery?

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Even the American Constitution considers it slavery.
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

I realize that having prisoners perform labor for dirt cheap causes all kinds of problems, but since I obey the laws and have to work full time, I do object to the fact that commiting a crime worthy of prison gets you a cot, and three square meals a day while you get to fuck off al day and do nothing on my dime.
 
except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

I realize that having prisoners perform labor for dirt cheap causes all kinds of problems, but since I obey the laws and have to work full time, I do object to the fact that commiting a crime worthy of prison gets you a cot, and three square meals a day while you get to fuck off al day and do nothing on my dime.
Wasn't commenting on whether that exception should be there or not. Just pointing out the 13th Amendment agrees with people who consider penal labor a form of slavery. Honestly don't care.
 
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Wasn't commenting on whether that exception should be there or not. Just pointing out the 13th Amendment agrees with people who consider penal labor a form of slavery. Honestly don't care.
you do know what except means right?

For some reason I couldn't quote the whole thing, so I assumed you quoted a deleted post or something, so gave you the benifit of the doubt, but that actually means that under the constituation slave labor for prisoners is the only time it's acceptable.

So, what was your point?
 
you do know what except means right?

For some reason I couldn't quote the whole thing, so I assumed you quoted a deleted post or something, so gave you the benifit of the doubt, but that actually means that under the constituation slave labor for prisoners is the only time it's acceptable.

So, what was your point?
He's not saying the constitution forbids it, he's saying that the constitution considers penal labor a form of slavery. It's a semantics thing.
 
Because they've been conditioned to think that way so that the majority opposes the means by which a prison could generate revenue to sustain itself, thereby justifying the current relationship wherein privately owned prisons operate as contractors in exchange for your tax dollars in direct proportion to the number of prisoners they house, which subsequently gets paid to lobbyists and thus politicians in the form of legal bribes in exchange for legislation that will place more people in those for-profit privately owned prisons, increasing the amount of tax money they are entitled to, and thus profits for their owners and investors, directly out of your pocket.

A prison that is instead expected to generate its own revenue through forced labor still faces the same incentivization problem and would still result in lobbyists bribing politicians to pass legislation and fund institutions that fill prisons with prisoners to expand their forced labor, er, force. But at least it would be simultaneously incentivized to provide desired services to society in exchange for its capital.
 
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