The prison labor loophole nobody wants to close
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Most Americans know that. Fewer know the rest of that sentence: “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” That clause has governed American prison labor for 160 years, and neither party will debate it honestly. The reasons are straightforward, and neither is constitutional. […]
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