“Over the years, the courts have held inmates may be forced to work and are not protected by the constitution against involuntary servitude. They have also consistently held that inmates have no constitutional right to compensation and that inmates are paid by the "grace of the state."”
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No. If you wanted that, you’d do this:
“Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
“Over the years, the courts have held inmates may be forced to work and are not protected by the constitution against involuntary servitude. They have also consistently held that inmates have no constitutional right to compensation and that inmates are paid by the "grace of the state."”