Have you not been told about working conditions inside the prisons of China? Have you not been instructed about State & Federal Prisoners here in our United States doing jobs from electronics assembly to sewing of jeans(for $1.40 an hour)?
Long gone, it is NOT SLAVERY if prisoners are 1.) volunteer to do this light manufacturing work, and 2.) are paid to work.
And it is a given that the vast majority of these people are in prison in the first place because they tried to steal, murder, or chemically enslave others with drug addiction.
I have no problem at all in offering prisoners employment opportunities that 1.) keep them out of trouble 2.) provide them some means of making and saving money while completing their sentence, and 3.) reimburse the victims for the crimes perpetrated against them (part of most prisoner's wages go to victim's restitution).
This is a FAR CRY FROM CHINA where people are placed in prison not just for physical crimes with actual victims, but for victimless political crimes.
Personally, I think prisoners in the US are pampered. I would have no problem with making each of them perform hard, physical labor for each and every day of their prison sentences, and doing it with no pay. Work 'em hard and they'll be too tired to form racially biased gangs and spending their nights shanking each other.
And if one of those jobs is working in a gold mine, then that's fine with me too.
Regards,
Ron
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