Criminals are not Slaves
January 16, 2025•183 words
🇺🇸 There is a debate in the USA about criminals being forced to perform labor while in prison, and concern that corporations are using the prison system as a form of forced labor or slavery.
Prison sentences are supposed to be hard labor. Liberals believe that work is good for criminals. They should be forced to work and volunteer. They should be forced to give back to the community that they violated when they committed crimes. Corporations, however, should have to pay legitimate wages, the going rate, for prion labor, but this pay should be used to pay for the prisoner's expenses, the expense of keeping the prisoner incarcerated. The community should not have to pay for the prisoner's incarceration through governments funds via taxes. We also believe that criminals should be required to pay reparations to victims and their families.
Institutions that provide public services, like fire departments, should continue to get free prison labor, and this should be considered as mandatory volunteer community service. It is not slavery.
Liberals will not support an amendment to the constitution on this issue.
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