“Working for a private company for close to no wages, so that they can profit off your behind, is not paying your debt to society, because society doesn’t see that money.”
Sure it does. The local economy sees the benefits. Those companies who make the money can hire other workers. Workers who could have very well been the victims of these animals.
The local economy would do even better if they hired the citizens to do the work instead of using the convict labor at a fraction of the cost. Convict labor puts the honest citizen out of a job.
The only labor prisoners should be doing is breaking rocks, digging ditches, and cleaning public roads, not fattening the pockets of Insider Corporations at tax payer expense.