'This is slavery': U.S. inmates strike in what activists call one of the biggest prison protests...

these Morons have no Idea what slavery is...

I remember a similar event in the Texas prison system in the late 60s early 70. The prison make it clear, prisoners had a choice, work and eat or not work and not eat. They choose to eat.

If one is incarcerated for breaking whatever law, I don't have a problem with them working to offset the cost of keeping them in jail. One alternative could be let the family provide support for the prisoner, if the family doesn't bring food, they don't eat... etc.

And soles in Hell want ice-water, as the saying goes. This is nothing new, inmates have been agitating for 'better conditions' for years and years and getting some or a lot of support from the courts. Here inTX an inmate sued the state years ago and brought about major major changes in conditions in some very old prisons where inmates were confined in double bunks right next to each other in unconditioned spaces. By the same token, the State doesn't have to pay the inmates anything but does so out of a kind of paternalism which enables the inmates to purchase minor conveniences and luxuries at a commissary. Inmates are natural born criminals and scammers and conmen always trying to manipulate themselves and the correction officers to get special treatment and any advantage they can. Being a CO is an atrocious underpaid job, esp here in TX where they barely receive subsistence wages. Not an expert by any means, but did have occasion to work in and around state prisons long enough to stay away from them.