> Yes, it’s borderline slave labor

I'm sorry, how is it "borderline" slave labour and not straight up forced labour? These people are imprisoned, and I'm assuming forced to do this work, or what happens if they say no? It's quite literally known as "penal labour" and I thought most of the world figured out that we're not supposed to treat people like that anymore.

Selling prisoners as underpaid slave labor means everyone else now has to compete against companies using that slave labor. It's essentially cutting us twice. We both pay to house and feed the employees/contractors of the company benefiting who then undercuts us by not bothering to pay them.

Prisons should not be allowed to be a profit center. The ramifications of doing so create gross incentives.

> To the readers out there. Do not be put off by where it was made, how it was made. It was made.

And if it never sells, the profit margins for the slave drivers decreases.

I mean, I really, this post is trying to justify slave labor. Is that not... A little bizarre to find yourself doing that?

Also these are people found guilty of a felony and it costs us non prisoners tax money to keep them housed and fed. Is it unfair if we extract under paid or unpaid labor from them? Is it also unfair to ask drivers convicted of DWD to do free community labor?

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