Having worked with guys with felonies for most of my life (kinda impossible not to in this country honestly), going to prison is in no way withholding your labor, and in fact, makes you more legally exploitable by the state.

Even if you try to withhold your labor (which, good luck, between the psychological problem of being bored and a social need to stay either the good side of the guards or gangs, either of whom require underpaid labor as a sign of deference) as soon as you are out your labor is in a more precarious position than ever with felons making up the majority of the homeless population.

Now, you might be young and clever, and can bounce that outside cat :data-outdoor-cat: shit for awhile, but eventually, you might make a mistake, slip up, and then the hammer comes down again to throw you back into that prison system to start over again.

Sorry for the rant, I don't think you believe this, but I didn't see it being said.