Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?

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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.

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  • AniZaeger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a foreigner, you probably know more about the US Constitution than most US citizens. And I’m saying that as a natural born US citizen.

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  • chicagohuman@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep!

    Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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  • BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and fugitive slave patrols became police

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