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That there's a prison labor loophole in the 13th Amendment[1] that abolished slavery speaks volumes. [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment
by pmoriarty 3y ago
That there's a prison labor loophole in the 13th Amendment[1] that abolished slavery speaks volumes.
[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_...
- tivert 3y ago> That there's a prison labor loophole in the 13th Amendment[1] that abolished slavery speaks volumes. Not really. That amendment abolished all other forms of involuntary servitude too (except as punishment for a crime). If that exception weren't there, it'd outlaw pretty reasonable things, like sentences of "community service."