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Yes, every story should be made to be about the US. It's really the only place that matters. Oh and FYI, slavery for punishment is legal in the US.

• humanrebar 11y ago
  Well, not chattel slavery, which is what Americans usually mean by the term. The prison can't sell prisoners like you could sell a car or something.
  • Zigurd 11y ago
    They can, and do, rent them as if they were chattel.
  • turar 11y ago
    Can a private prison sell its prisoners to another private prison? Of course it would be called something like "inmate transfer", but I don't see how it's not possible.
• mempko 11y ago
  Actually this is one of the most appropriate stories to mention the US. US has the most prisoners in the world and the Russian prison slaves wished a world where there would be no slavery. That world is not here yet.
  • notdanariely 11y ago
    Judging by the responses in this thread, your comment was deemed off-topic. I think part of the reaction is that your tone sounded like you were pushing an agenda. Then when people said they thought it was off topic, you doubled down on the insist tone. Both of those things are a turn-off: people don't want to see reddit-like behavior (taking a topic about a historical discovery of slavery conditions in Russia and turning it into a US-centric political hot-button issue). I thought your initial comment was a little off-topic, personally. But the defensive / insistent tone in this reply makes me think that you actually were pushing an agenda, and that the criticisms were valid. (Essentially, to me, you proved their point: you weren't interested in discussing the focus of the article, but wanted to hijack the thread to talk about an issue important to you.)