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It actually is in living memory: the 13th amendment expressly grants the government the right to use slavery as punishment for a crime. https://constitution.co
by ssalka 3y ago
It actually is in living memory: the 13th amendment expressly grants the government the right to use slavery as punishment for a crime.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/ https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoWhile the point still stands, the 13th Amendment's exception for punishment doesn't ban prison labor as we know it today. When it was ratified, "involuntary servitude" was only applicable to private parties, not labor performed for the State. If the exception didn't exist, the 13th would have still allowed for prison labor. What the exception does is ban the now-extint practice of "convict leasing"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing
- reactordev 3y agoIt still happens…
- sidewndr46 3y agoReality strongly disagrees here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
- beaeglebeached 3y agoAnything involving juveniles and family law is a magnet for psychopaths because the cases are sealed and basically impossible for the public to monitor for abuse. If you look at any secret government system like this it inevitably becomes a den for the most vile of parasites who thrive in darkness. The naive front, is this secrecy is in the 'interest of the children' (meme.jpg), and thus they haven't a right to public adjudication. Corrupt judges salivate for the proceeds of that.