Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ...
by monocasa on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:17AM
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The legality of forced work of prisoners is due to an exemption in the 13th amendment.
> 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.
> 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.
Prison labor is literally slavery.