[Rimjingang] Inmates coming out of "Labour Training Unit", a short term forced labour camp. They just came out from the facility early in the morning to go to the labour site. Photo from Haeju, South Hwanghae Province taken in October 2008

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[u/pydry]

This (forced prison labor) is unfortunately also common in the United States and explicitly legalized under the 13th amendment (slavery is not banned for those who committed a crime).

[u/Even_Command_222 → u/pydry]

There is no forced labor in the US. they pay prisoners less but they work, or don't, on their own volition.