ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
I didn't say violence was perpetrated. I said it was under the threat of "increased punishment". Violence or the threat of violence is not a necessary requirement for someone to be considered to be forced to do something against their will.
Or solitary confinement, removal of basic privileges, etc.. That's a means of coercion.
Because you've just made it up. In reality, prisoners are threatened with confinement, push-back of parole dates and even increased sentences if they don't work.
SOURCES:
US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery'
Organisers say prisoners across the country are expected to refuse to work, hold sit-ins and even stage hunger strikes
Once you are in prison, you lose the right to refuse to work.
I don't believe it is as bad as the slave trade, but it IS slavery by any reasonable definition. This is like arguing that we shouldn't call shooting someone in the head murder because torturing someone to death over countless hours is worse. Both can be considered murder. And, in this case, we have involuntary labour being carried out without necessary payment by people who are made to do so under the threat of punishment for the profit of the individuals or organisations they are considered the legal property of. It's pretty explicitly a form of slavery.
