Jeff Sessions actually said...

It is perfectly legitimate for prisoners to work, but in decent conditions.

The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress.

I thought that was an unwise step, to take something that directs even the lowest private to do, to make that the rule for higher-ups.

Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect...