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> Because literally no prisoner in the USA has been explicitly sentenced to this.

False. Arizona law, for one example, specifically provides for sentences of “hard labor”:

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/31/00141.htm



Ok, I stand corrected - but I imagine vast majority of prisoners haven't been sentenced to such(in fact have any such sentences ever been handed out in recent times?).




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