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RE: Do you know what work inmates in the U.S. are doing? Do you know how extensive it has become? I want to give you an example.
imprisonment is by definition legal slavery.
Actually BY DEFINITION it is not.
Imprisonment doesn't have to do ANYTHING with labor. It simply is removal from society, and restrictions.
Slavery is similar but it implies forced labor. Imprisonment does not have to have a labor component at all so BY DEFINITION it has nothing to do with slavery. Slavery can have something to do with imprisonment, but they are not synonymous.
I can find no definition for imprisonment that mentions labor, or slavery. They mention confinement, or to put into a prison.
And again... this still addresses nothing I wrote about in my post.
ahem..."involuntary servitude"...used in the sentence as the equivalent to slavery...?
servitude mean work?
Got a reading problem today? (we all have such days)
Where does it say anything about involuntary servitude in that?
you said imprisonment by definition is slavery. It is not BY DEFINITION.
Had you actually said Involuntary servitude you would be correct. That isn't what you said. Perhaps that is what you MEANT to say and you only typed imprisonment.
So so far... there is this. Plus you talking about what is constitutional. I never said it wasn't. Still has very little to do with my post. Not sure what your intentions are here other than perhaps not to admit you kind of derailed the topic and went off in a different direction. That is totally fine, but it actually is NOT what I wrote about in my blog post.