Forced labor in prisons is not equivalent to chattel slavery. It’s not even a race-based institution as you suggest since over half of the prisoners are white. (I understand POC are over-represented, I’m just pointing out that chattel slavery was exclusively for black people)
In other words, I’m from corporate and I’m asking you to tell the difference between these two pictures:
The US routinely tortures and starves prisoners. I don’t see how keeping someone in solitary confinement for years (sometimes decades) isn’t as bad as slavery 200 years ago.
Forced labor in prisons is not equivalent to chattel slavery. It’s not even a race-based institution as you suggest since over half of the prisoners are white. (I understand POC are over-represented, I’m just pointing out that chattel slavery was exclusively for black people)
In other words, I’m from corporate and I’m asking you to tell the difference between these two pictures:
The US routinely tortures and starves prisoners. I don’t see how keeping someone in solitary confinement for years (sometimes decades) isn’t as bad as slavery 200 years ago.
Thats disingenuous. You need to look at arrests and convictions, not just current prison populations.