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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of prison labor in the United States. The argument is presented that the nature of the labor system constitutes slavery. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the country was wary of the Communist ideology increasingly espoused in other countries around the world. The United States was so committed to opposing the spread of communism in the
interest of protecting capitalism that this served as the justification for US entry into two foreign wars in Korea and Vietnam, a total breakdown of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and
most significant of all, a protracted "Cold War" with the Soviet Union. Capitalism is thusly an ingrained aspect of the American character. In modern times, however, the capitalistic impulse seems
to have infused all aspects of the state, including previously unrelated functions such as the prisons and corrections system. The United States, with the highest prison population in the world,
is increasingly subjecting its prisoners to forced labor; while this is ostensibly for the prisoners ability to earn money while behind bars, the reality is that the extraordinarily cheap labor
performed by prisoners is a lucrative source of profit for the privatized prison industry. Indeed, in this respect, the United States thirst for capitalistic dominance may have caused it to
more closely resemble a country such as China, with its forced prison labor, rather than the US own industrial capitalist roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn
money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such cheap labor, is it really more like slavery? This paragraph helps the student present a summary overview of
the prison labor system. In order to understand the questionable ethics of prison labor, it can be useful to examine the prison labor system as a whole. At the moment,
there are some 2.3 million Americans in prison, at the state, federal, and local levels; of these, some 100,000 are "employed" in prison industries ("U.S.", 2009). Industries such as those
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