In the United States, freedom has never been free. For Black Americans, in particular, the price of freedom has been immense, paid through generations of impossible decisions and forced compromises ...
The Kentucky constitution prohibits slavery except as a punishment for a crime. The slavery exception clause has helped create a profitable prison-industrial complex in Kentucky. The current system ...
Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison ...
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...
Proposition 6 would end mandatory work assignments in California prisons, a practice allowed under the state Constitution as a punishment for crime. Supporters say forced labor in prison is a form of ...
A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In California, voters chose to keep the status ...
California voters have decided against backing Proposition 6, which would have amended the state constitution to abolish forced labor in prisons. The West Coast state has decided to keep slavery legal ...
“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...
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California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons
Vice President Kamala Harris' home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating ...
Why does American society remain so deeply implicated in the enslavement of Black Americans? Slavery was never abolished in the United States, and today it enjoys widespread support among both ...
A Denver judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating an amendment to the state constitution by ...
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