Much like how it is very easy to pass laws and ordinances that fuck over the homeless, it is also easy to pass laws and ordinances that fuck over prisoners.

The US Constitutional + Ammendments explicitly allows slavery as punishment for a crime you've been convicted of.

The Supreme Court has now repeatedly just thrown all prior existing legal case precedent out the window and just made such nakedly hypocritical rulings that its fair to say they are a completely biased and arbitrary institution.

The rule of law in the US is dead, is a farsical joke.

Some state will just pass a law that says uh hey, if you're a prisoner in a facility in our state, and the state has some kind of extraordinary need, we can force you into involuntary labor.

Then other states will copy this once it passes one state's court, then in 6 months-ish it'll get to the Supreme Court who will say yep, checks out, carry on, and then every other red state and half the blue states will do it as well.

I am not 100% sure this will happen, but it is very, very plausible. 95% sure something like this will happen within 5 to 10 years, possibly less.

Also... its illegal to be homeless now, and the economy is crashing. Get foreclosed on, can't pay rent, end up in the streets, living in your car?

Yep, why not crack down on that like ICE is cracking down on migrants, now you're convicted of being homeless, the punishment is a few years of forced labor.

Dude what? Our Constitution literally allows for us to continue slavery as a punishment. Why the fuck would you ever think they had a choice?