As of 2016 the United States prison system has dealt with one of the largest prison strikes in American history. Among many of the prisoner’s grievances, one of the most demoralizing is that they are claiming they are treated like slaves, and that the prison system is violating their human rights. A main concern with prisoners is compensation, how the amount of work they are required to do, does not equal how much they receive as payment. The penitentiary system has always payed way below minimum wage, and a livable income even for prisons. The private prisons are even more concerning as sometimes they do not even compensate their prison workers at all, while still managing to make a profit from the workforce labor. The question of prison