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> IANAL but the wording seems pretty straightforward. I feel relatively confident that laws outlawing prison slavery would be challenged by for-profit prisons i
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> IANAL but the wording seems pretty straightforward. I feel relatively confident that laws outlawing prison slavery would be challenged by for-profit prisons instantly and easily be declared unconstitutional.
It'd be pretty hard to extract from the 13th amendment a constitutional right to put prisoners to unpaid work.
Furthermore, it's a myth that only for-profit prisons that profit from it - state-owned prisons also profit off the system to the same extent.
- jaccarmac 8y ago> It'd be pretty hard to extract from the 13th amendment a constitutional right to put prisoners to unpaid work. Fair, I had forgotten the "except... shall exist wording" > state-owned prisons also profit off the system to the same extent Also fair, but I'd expect the private prisons to be the ones to sue states.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> Also fair, but I'd expect the private prisons to be the ones to sue states. Maybe, but at the moment the LEO/correctional officer unions are the ones actively lobbying to prevent laws like these from passing in the first place.