Chinese Prisons making inmates farm gold

/sigh

And people (read: idiots) say America will be taken over by China. pfffft.

That's utterly atrocious. Treating prisoners like slaves has got to be a human rights violation of "hey lets give everyone involved in this life-sentences" caliber.

I'd be deathly afraid of what China would do to us if they DID (extremely hypothetical speech here) take over. I mean... if that's what they do to their own people, imagine what they'd do to us...

What the eff.

I get that the prisons need money to operate, but why this?

I guess because they see it as an easy success. I don't see how they make much money, though, since apparently Chinese Gold Farming is a VERY small profit (this is according to things I've read and videos I've watched -- this article is kind of stating the opposite, though).