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I don't like the incentives that creates. Private prisons and the existing prison labor system are bad enough.

And then we will have people complaining about slavery...they already say that prison jobs pay below minimum wage so they are slavery.

forced work for who breaks the law? you risk to fall in the "slavery with extra steps" situation

Slavery as a punishment for crime is explicitly authorized in the United States Constitution.

To piggy-back on this, not only is it explicitly authorized it's often expected.

Failure to voluntarily participate in a work-program is grounds for solitary confinement (which entails more penalties than just being by yourself).

federal prisons already require prisoners to work. We DO have slavery with extra steps

no, private prisons are productive?

Private prisons account for 8% of the total prison population.