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Oh no, we did a slavery! EDIT: Allowing prisons to profit from the labor of prisoners creates a perverse incentive for the companies running prisons to keep pr
by i_am_jl 3y ago
Oh no, we did a slavery!
EDIT: Allowing prisons to profit from the labor of prisoners creates a perverse incentive for the companies running prisons to keep prisons full. Maybe it works in places where prisons aren't run for profit.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThis is less of a gotcha in the context of locking people in boxes, which we also normally don't do.
- i_am_jl 3y agoLocking people in a box is incarceration. Locking people in a box and compelling them to perform labor from which the incarcerator profits is slavery. The fact that imprisoning people costs a lot of money is one of the few things keeping the U.S. prison population in check. That's not a problem that needs solving.
- masklinn 3y agoTo be fair the US already do a slavery, prison labour is a thing.
- i_am_jl 3y agoTo be clear, that's exactly what I mean. Every perverse incentive that nudges for-profit prisons towards manufacturing prisoners is magnified by turning individual prisoners into revenue streams.
- joshuacc 3y agoInterestingly, in the US, slavery is explicitly permitted by the Constitution as a punishment for crimes. (Though whether prison labor should count as "slavery" or as a different form of "involuntary servitude" is an interesting semantic question.) "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- di456 3y agoIt's a US constitution problem. Slavery of prisoners is still legal. There's a film on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)