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I'm not sure why this is surprising. Prison labor in the US is an extensively documented horror.

You didn't read the part about it being in Belgium?

Which, btw, is currently on a nationwide prison strike since early April.[0] At least Belgium prison strikes get some press. Unlike the US ones. In 2016 we had the largest prison strike in this nation's history[1] and I didn't see a peep about it in any major newspaper

[0] https://www.brusselstimes.com/998003/indefinite-prison-strik...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_U.S._prison_strike

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