Is it just me or should prisoners work for free....? You're in prison because you committed crimes, some of them incredibly heinous and disturbing..... Why should we pay you for manual labor whilst in prison?

Because if you’re forced to do labour for free, that makes you an actual fucking slave.

Prisoners are human.

Humans have rights that must not be infringed upon.

A country where they can put you in a for-profit prison, charge taxpayers to house and feed you, while also using your sweatshop labor to produce and market "made in america" goods, has an incentive to criminalize and incarcerate their population.