Society should bear the costs to imprison people. That's a fundamental pillar of a functioning and fair government. To make prisoners a profit center is to e

Society should bear the costs to imprison people. That's a fundamental pillar of a functioning and fair government. To make prisoners a profit center is to encourage a society to imprison more people and for unjust reasons. The fact that the USA has the largest prison population per capita in the world, and by a fairly large factor, is solid evidence that slave labor for prisoners is bad. Our legal system has facilities for extracting reparations from criminals. Let's use that instead of continuing slavery.