German Focus magazine reports on how the industry in the US has discovered prison labour as a way to produce cheap, and for private capital interest, which helps to boost the private prison sector, and motivates for legislation to encourage high imprisonment rates by drqaconic penalty for even marginal offences, to ensure that prisons stay profitable and always enough slave workers are in the production line.
http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/ti...d_1037691.html
A depressing, dangerous and disgracing business model that in my opinion equals slave labour. I am not against forcing prisoners to work for the costs of their "lodging", but I am against motivating to boost imprisonment rates and turning prisons into an attractive business model. The TV docu already showed how marginal offences have become for which you can earn long slave work sentences, and how real important focusing on really major crime cases gets neglected by a system that sees its focus now in serving the profit interests of private contractors and private business leasing the prisons as de facto slaves. The whole system is not only depressingly but also very dangerously derailed.
IMO this becomes dangerously comparable with slave labour in KZs.