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That's unfortunate. However, folks in the US prison system have been convicted of crimes.

• d4mi3n 5y ago
  Presumably China has also convicted it's forced labor of some crimes as well. Regardless of what the laws are, I believe that prison labor is a bad practice with big ethical issues—it incentives incarceration as a means to procure cheap/free labor that can be used to turn a profit for those in power. EDIT: To clarify: I don't think giving prisoners an option to work is a bad thing, but nobody should be allowed to profit off of such labor other than the prisoner themselves. Anything else tends to lead towards undesirable incentives and outcomes.
• rytor718 5y ago
  So slavery is legal as long as the slave is a criminal? I'm not following what's being implied.
• BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
  Ignoring the fact that we've had prisoners, in places like e.g. Guantanamo, on and off who were/are held for decades without ever even being charged with anything, China has also charged its prisoners with crimes. You don't agree with China's decision to make practicing religion a crime, I don't agree with the US's decision to make possessing drugs a crime. Both are "crimes" punishable by incarceration according to the two governments.
• vkou 5y ago
  The Gulags were also full of people who have committed crimes. Some of those crimes were even non-political! I can't say that's the argument that I'd use to defend slavery, though...
• 0x000000001 5y ago
  Criminals are still humans and we should be using every effort to rehabilitate them and make them valuable members of society and contributors to the economy in a far more significant way