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How is keeping the money on top of forced labor legal? Doesn't the USA have anti-slavery legislation and why doesn't it apply?
by iSnow 5y ago
How is keeping the money on top of forced labor legal? Doesn't the USA have anti-slavery legislation and why doesn't it apply?
- kadoban 5y agoWhen you're convicted of a crime, you lose a lot of freedoms. The 13th amendment (the one that abolished slavery) explicitly contains the wording "...except as punishment for crime..."
- kwhitefoot 5y agoThe US has not ratified C029 - Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), together with: Afghanistan Brunei Darussalam China Marshall Islands Palau Tonga Tuvalu See https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P11310_INSTRUMENT_ID:312174:NO https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::N...
- iSnow 5y agoWow, TIL, thanks.