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Originally Posted by MRM View Post
Joe is 100% correct on this and he knows what he's talking about.

"The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day."

By any definition, people being coerced into working for free is slavery. If the Soviet Union was exposed doing this (they did) this board would have been all over it.
I must be missing something here. No way I would ever call this slave labor or cruel punishment or whatever. The inmates are probably grateful.
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