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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Is it really immoral to make use out of criminals that are otherwise, literally tasked with wasting away their time and lives?
gpt
Disappointed that youre not getting any real responses, generally the issue is that it creates a market for prisoners. If you have incentives to imprison people (free labor) + private prisons, theres more of a push towards policies that have harsher prison sentences for crimes that you probably shouldnt be imprisoned for. You can get an outrageous prison time for certain drugs. This is an extra level of bad because those drugs are used by black communities and so you have a system in America that encourages imprisoning (and thus enslaving) disproportionately black men.  So while you can debate the morality of it, the issue is that by implementing it you’re encouraging false or disproportionate prison sentences and hurting certain communities more.