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Prison labour is just a shortcut for "more laws so we can get more 'not slaves' for our prisons."
Its a good idea in theory, but the moment human nature and profit incentives exist it falls apart like everything else Libertarian.
So make it non-productive labour.
Bring back rock breaking. Those rocks ain't gonna break themselves.
The point is, those prisoners should learn the concept of a hard day's work and what they fucked up for someone else.
Then you start to run close to the line of cruel and unusual punishment. And you are very optimistic if you think they won't find a way to monetize that.
The point is obvious and very sound. The problem is it'll never stay that way, its not in human nature.
Nothing unusual about rock breaking. It's literally a trope. Nothing cruel about it either, keeps them fit and gives them tons of vitamin D.
You're grasping at straws here. As long as the people profiting of prisoner work aren't the ones creating prisoners and approving paroles, there's no downside or corruption motive.
And communism works great as long as the bad guys never get power either.
Everything works great if you never let people with nefarious motives near the system.
What's funny is slave labor is still legal for prisoners though you probably have to be specifically sentenced to that. They should stop pretending and just do it.
I’m my state, the vast majority of the prison labor goes towards prison operations, like growing food, maintenance, sanitation, etc. Only a little of it supports commercial operations.
It’s an important part of maintaining discipline in prisons because otherwise they’ll just sit around bored all day.
Its not that I'm against the idea, its that its incredibly quick for that little to become a bigger focus.
The Angola prison over by where I grew up is very self sustaining, while also being the largest max security prison in America, and operates entirely on the same beliefs. It also eventually kept "expanding" its operations into arts and crafts and its famous Rodeo until eventually prisoners were being forced into making trinkets to sell and ride bulls for pure profit to the prison.
That prison is why I say such a thing. Because I got to see the degeneration first hand, being related to a bunch of felons and all.