[ecf]

It’s not slavery when the human has done things that society deemed bad enough to lose their rights for however long the sentence is.

[uicompat]

If you truly hold this position you’d be well served to familiarize yourself with Scandinavian prison system which focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment and various American atrocities such as the war on drugs and the private prison pipeline such as “kids for cash”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

[wang_li]

Kids for cash was a crime. It doesn't reinforce the idea that the system is designed to ship people into private prisons. It shows the opposite.

[ecf]

Scandinavian system is completely incompatible with US population numbers and economic realities for the US. Their total population is less than 39 million, while the US has 10x that.

[BeetleB]

Slavery is slavery, regardless of how bad the person is.

[programmarchy]

And kidnapping is kidnapping. According to this logic, imprisonment is kidnapping, and serial killers should be free to roam the streets.

[sigspec]

Are you sure?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/1...

[Loic]

You are losing your freedom of movement, not your rights, no?

[wang_li]

Prisoners lose most of their rights. They have no privacy rights, they can be searched at any time without a warrant, they often don't get to vote, they don't get to own weapons, they don't have freedom of association, they don't get to choose their style of dress.

[EasyMark]

Nope you lose a lot of your rights as well. I don't know about European prisons, though. When you break the social contract, there are consequences.

[rolph]

why punish twice for one crime ?