So slavery's not dead, I guess.
I’m anti-slavery, myself. Even when the government decides the person did something wrong, not really in favor of it. Sometimes the government gets a bit fast and loose on what a crime is and who has committed them.
A. I guess I'm confused you ever thought it was dead.
B. The license plate programs are optional, and as I understand it most work details are a desirable distraction from the all encompassing boredom of prison life.
So I'm not sure it's anything but typing just to type to call it slavery, knowing full damn well it is nothing like the history you're tying it to.
> When did slavery end around the world?
> After centuries of struggle, slavery was eventually declared illegal at the global level in 1948 under the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mauritania was the last country to officially abolish slavery, with a presidential decree in 1981.
This is also what I was taught at school. Most people in my European country probably know that "legal" slavery (for example debt bondage) still happens in third world countries, but I'm almost sure most don't realise slavery is legal in the US too.
Mince words all you want, the constitution doesn't and makes it very clear that there is an exception for slavery. Of course we could simply pay people for work, as is our custom, and end this depressing argument once and for all.
Or something.
I think it's implied in the "incarceration" part of their sentences. But when and where it isn't, I'd be happy to include that in the sentence, if that's your only objection.
For the record, some sentences do seem to include the term "hard labor" and the like.
The legal profession and justice system is anything but friendly to things 'implied'.
> But when and where it isn't, I'd be happy to include that in the sentence
Are you a judge or a legislator?
> For the record, some sentences do seem to include the term "hard labor" and the like.
I have searched but can find no source which will cite anyone in the recent era sentenced to 'hard labor'. If you can find one I would be grateful.
False. Arizona law, for one example, specifically provides for sentences of “hard labor”:
Private prisons have an incentive to incarcerate more prisoners regardless of prison labor—as do corrections officer unions—and I can understand abolishing both of those (the unions are probably an even bigger problem). Nonetheless, judging by our high rates of violent crime, it seems clear to me that the United States isn’t incarcerating enough people.