Dor, what does one have to do with the other (although there is summary capital punishment – the ba b’machteret and the manslaughterer who leaves the city of refuge, for example)? The fact of the matter is that there is a form of slavery – prisoners are put to work (the Thirteenth Amendment even makes an explicit exception for ” punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”). The fact of the matter is that many ex-cons commit crimes in order to go back inside. There they room and board plus work and society. Wouldn’t it be better to give these people the opportunity to sell themselves to a frum Jew and get all that plus Shabbat, Yom Tov, Chol HaMoed, a wife, etc.?
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