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They're not imprisoned in order to force them to do work.
by BurningFrog 3y ago
They're not imprisoned in order to force them to do work.
- Larrikin 3y agoExcept when they are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
- rrdharan 3y agoThat case was about the (private) prison system itself profiting from the number of inmates increasing, not from labor the inmates were forced to provide.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoYou don't think the fact that the prison's economically depend on slave labor to function has any side effects on how the justice system works for those slaves?
- BurningFrog 3y agoIt's certainly possible. But the courts doing the sentencing and the prison owners are typically completely separate entities. It's not just one "justice system" run by one group of people.