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They stopped being humans when they decided to steal that bread to feed their children!!
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They stopped being humans when they decided to smoke that weed growing in the ditch or eat that wild growing mushroom.
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You can't have a prison system without involuntary servitude - being able to compel prisoners to do things they don't want to do is more or less a mandatory requirement.
I'd point out that under the right lens both conscription and child support would be slavery with an asterisk, as well. Though the courts have ruled otherwise, because they really want to keep those institutions in place.
It's forced labor, not actual chattel slavery in the sense that the state can't actually buy and sell prisoners and is obligated to free them under certain conditions. Nor, unlike chattel slavery, can one be born into the status of prisoner.