As a european, I'm amazed and deeply irritated that forced labor to this day is part of the US prison system: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263?t=16419

As a european, I'm amazed and deeply irritated that forced labor to this day is part of the US prison system: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263?t=1641920153339 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263?t=1641920153339 And I'm also irritated that in the US many convicts (not just inmates) lose their right to vote, a human right that in Europe you'd only lose for direct attack to the democracy (like the Jan 6 mob, or voting fraud, and even then only for a limited period of time). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#Europe