• snooggums@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Not all prisons, because some states don’t allow the exception that exists in the 13th Amendment to be implemented in their state prisons. There is still a lot of coercion and inmates are massively underpaid for their work in a way that is slavery in everything except name in those states.

    So if a prison has a work program for inmates, assuming it is slavery is a good assumption. But some prisons don’t let prisoners work for various reasons, so not all prisons practice slavery.