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This isn't about removing people from society. It's about the practice of using them to perform free labor.
rehabilitation please
Yes, you can use slaves to offset the cost of their upkeep. That argument sucks.
ETHICALLY it's not volunteering if it's coerced, and I can't think of many things more coercive than the promise of more prison.
No. There's a distinction but not a difference.
For profit prisons are less than 10% of all prisons. Police unions are the threat.