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The 13th amendment allows for slavery as a punishment for crimes. It does not require that everyone in prison be a slave.

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Ok?

Are you actually claiming that everyone in a US prison is a slave?

The constitution allows that they be used for slave labor, and many are.

But are they slaves by virtue of being in prison?

Don't commit the crime if you can't handle it. It's a punishment.

I think you mean, don't be poor.

It's not like people in prison are actually all guilty of their convicted crime.

You'll see this double-standard a lot for minor offenses as well. How many times has MKHB been caught excessively speeding (including 90? in a school zone) and still have a license.

We forbid cruel and unusual punishment. If we lived by the morality you just articulated, we wouldn’t do so. I think slavery is cruel and unusual, I think that’s clear.

You’re saying that only those forced to do labor would be slaves? Slaves aren’t made free by a lack of tasks. What’s your point?

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