Slavery never left it just got rebranded.
The Thirteenth Amendment needs to be amended.
Per Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18, 1865. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
I do. It’s so incredibly easily exploitable and ripe for corruption. State owned prisons are no exception. I’d much rather inmates study to grow as people than just make them work for the sake of work.
Americans have such a warped idea of what a correctional system should look like. It’s just revenge for the sake of revenge with no regard for societal costs.
Even outside prisons, the entire culture is built around encouraging and classifying “crime” for the benefit of the rich and powerful, at the expense of the poor.
It’s so completely separate from growth and morality, I don’t think there’s any way to get there from here.