>> Does the United States actually practice slavery in the prison system in any fashion?
> Yes, and there are plenty of articles about it. For example:
Let's look up the definition of "slave":
> a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another;
Prison labor is not slavery, this is clearly shown by the fact that you can't buy or sell prisoners on the open market. Prison labor is involuntary servitude. It's still shitty and in need of reform, but hyperbole does no one any good.
Let's imagine an alternate history where, before the Civil War, they made a law that said you could no longer buy and sell your slaves, but you could still keep them on your property and make them labor for you. Has slavery been abolished? I'd say no, not in any meaningful sense.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...
It is also apparently mentioned in Hillary Clinton's memoirs that they had unpaid prison labor at the governor's mansion to save money.
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