Have you read his book? If not good because it’ll kill some of your brain cells if you do. But there’s nothing inherently wrong with writing a bad book. Most writers first book won’t be great but shadow of the conquer has more problems than just being bad. In it the main character a former genocidal, mass murdering, serial rapist does nothing to redeem himself but gets forgiven anyhow by all the rape victims who got pregnant from the involuntary intercourse because they’re so happy with their kids.

It has some troubling attitudes towards a great many things (mainly women) and those attitudes are presented by the book as self evident and true. I find it very telling of the man who wrote it.

It’s not even legal through some obscure loophole either the; amendment that banned slavery had an explicit exception for prisons and prisoners. Also, it means there is no reason for them to try to reform criminals. It’s in their best interests for the convicts that leave their care to quickly get arrested to come right back again. Trying to give them education and opportunities costs money and that’s money that can be spent on kickbacks and bribes to get their facilities full. There was one judge who immediately sent any juvenile defendant before him to the same facility. The facility that was sending him kick backs. Now as you mentioned the whole disgusting life destroying thing has been supercharged thanks to the crackdown.