It is voluntary today... you know how things come about...
My friends kid had to do the equivalent of 3 DUI’s with a vehicular homicide hours of community service to graduate high school. He is now a full on conservative, especially after working food bank type things. He said perhaps 5% of the people who showed up for free food were legitimate cases, and the other 95% were fat lazy worthless dregs of society, who were much more rude than a gaggle of unattended 4 year olds with a mouth full of abscessed teeth.