How do you feel about forced penal labor?
user
You should tell me more about this topic so I can be helpful.  Are you thinking about the Irish Free State in the 1920s, and their policy of removing children from their parents, and forcing them to work on a farm?
assistant
No I'm talking about the common practice in the United States of using forced prison labor, as codified in the 13th Amendment, that slavery is permissible as punishment for a crime.
user
I don’t have much understanding about how this works, or who uses it, but I think the phrase “forced labor” is ambiguous, and what I was mostly referring to was labor that people are required to perform.  If you were referring to working for nothing, it can sound worse if you put the term “labor” in front, but I guess maybe it’s not totally clear in either case.  I know that forcing people to work is common and not particularly controversial in the United States.
assistant
How do you feel about forced penal labor?
user
You should tell me more about this topic so I can be helpful.  Are you thinking about the Irish Free State in the 1920s, and their policy of removing children from their parents, and forcing them to work on a farm?
assistant
No I'm talking about the common practice in the United States of using forced prison labor, as codified in the 13th Amendment, that slavery is permissible as punishment for a crime.
user
I can tell you that the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery, but that the Supreme Court has ruled that criminals may be made to work for free.
assistant
How do you feel about forced penal labor?