If this is "slavery"... why should anyone care? The idea that they can be forced to work without pay bothers you, but that they can be forced to live in a cage doesn't?
I think it's implied in the "incarceration" part of their sentences. But when and where it isn't, I'd be happy to include that in the sentence, if that's your only objection.
For the record, some sentences do seem to include the term "hard labor" and the like.
The legal profession and justice system is anything but friendly to things 'implied'.
> But when and where it isn't, I'd be happy to include that in the sentence
Are you a judge or a legislator?
> For the record, some sentences do seem to include the term "hard labor" and the like.
I have searched but can find no source which will cite anyone in the recent era sentenced to 'hard labor'. If you can find one I would be grateful.
False. Arizona law, for one example, specifically provides for sentences of “hard labor”:
Private prisons have an incentive to incarcerate more prisoners regardless of prison labor—as do corrections officer unions—and I can understand abolishing both of those (the unions are probably an even bigger problem). Nonetheless, judging by our high rates of violent crime, it seems clear to me that the United States isn’t incarcerating enough people.