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Originally posted by Eclipse
I guess I knew that there was "involuntary servitude" in prison, but I don't know if I would classify it has slavery. My understanding is, you go to jail, they make you do work, they don't pay you.
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Prison workers are in fact paid. They receive an hourly wage anywhere from ten or twelve cents up to about a dollar or two. It's not much, but it is a wage so I don't think that imprisonment constitutes slavery.
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