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Originally Posted by Botnst
Let's say a man has "only" 30 years to serve and he's in his mid-20's. He has a "choice" of staying in a 10X6 cell for 30 years or doing piecework on the prison factory floor for $1.00/hr with $9.00/hr (or whatever, I pulled those figures out of nowhere) taken by the state to pay for his incarceration.
To me, that is so very near involuntary compulsion that I believe it is a form of slavery, but I can accept that you do not see it that way.
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Not a problem, 13th Amendment to the U.S. Consistution (section 1): Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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