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America has the largest prison population in the world, including "authoritarian" countries several times our size.
I'm sure that has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the fact that states get better contracts with private jailers for keeping prisons near max capacity :)
I'm sure it has nothing to do with how the 13th amendment was worded either
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."