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Working on databases from prison

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849 points dvektor | 1 comments | 16 Jun 25 12:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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studentik ◴[16 Jun 25 14:52 UTC] No.44290159[source]▶
In Soviet Union having prisoners do soft labor was called Sharashka. This scales and creates incentives to have more prisoners doing cheap labor.
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1. bargainbin ◴[17 Jun 25 10:16 UTC] No.44297468[source]▶
The key delineation here is the work is voluntary. I was uneasy reading the article and weighing it up, realised that the author could choose not to work whilst he serves time.

If he was being coerced into labour however, which the for-profit prison undoubtedly makes profit from, it’s simply unacceptable; indentured servitude, slavery, call it what you will, it’s bad for society in every way because it allows the ruling class to steal labour from the working class under the guise of “rehabilitation”.