>Your argument is that, because they had a fair trial and were found guilty, it is ethical to force them to work without compensation? Yes to some extent. I th

>Your argument is that, because they had a fair trial and were found guilty, it is ethical to force them to work without compensation? Yes to some extent. I think forcing prisoners to cook their own meals, clean up after themselves etc... is fine. I draw the line at contracting out prisoners for money, or selling products that prisoners make--not because I think requiring work as a part of fairly meted punishment is inherently wrong, but because I believe it creates perverse incentives. My primary argument is that requiring work as a part of punishment for an offense for which they were convicted at a fair trial is not remotely comparable to forcing hundreds of thousands of unconvicted political prisoners into labor camps.