Recently, thanks to Erik's suggestion, I've decided that I should cover on what goes on within prison labour camps. A brief summary on what goes on within these camps, is that
companies will fill up private prisons or use federal/state prisons to get low costing/free labour. So this means, these prisoners could be doing hours of work but never get paid. this article states that a low-end estimate as to how much money these companies make off this slave camps is around $2 billion dollars each year. The real question I
would like to ask, is this considered slavery? Well thanks to the GOD BLESS AMERICAN constituion, the 13th ammendment states ""Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." So this basically means, if you're convicted of a crime, you're basically allowed to be used as a
slave still.
But is this really the morally correct answer?
It really depends on how you view it, as I stated above, companies typically use private prisons or federal/state prisons. So assuming that the work is being done by potential murders, robbers, war criminals,
etcetera, it's safe to assume that it's morally fine I guess? But that leaves the minority of false convictions, because there have been people that could've been falsely accused of heinous crimes. An example, a young
black boy in the year 1944, named George Stinney was sentenced to the electric chair at the age of 14 over a complete lie. So this begs the question: is it really okay to treat prisoners as slaves?
In the end, this is not for me to answer, rather for you to think deep within yourself and question the morality of something like this. Because remember, we're in 2024. People's rights are mostly (emphasis on "mostly")
not being violated, and for whatever reason they were, it would for sure cause a public outrage. But then again, is being sold as a slave WHILE serving long prison sentences okay?
This is for you to answer, because to be quite honest I'm not even sure either.