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Thirteenth Amendment

The critical prison reform topic of jobs has been a recurring theme of my posts.[1] The topic brings into focus populations of people released from prison each year. In 2016, state and federal prisons released about 626,000 people, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.… Read the rest

On August 19, 2017, the iamWe Prison Advocacy Network, a nonprofit human rights organization, is hosting a march on Washington, DC. The cause is ending prison slavery.

In my post The Thirteenth Amendment Screws, I draw attention to how the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit slavery to all people in this country.… Read the rest

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Let’s take a simple test about the scope of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (ratified in 1865).

True or false: the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting slavery applies to all people.

The correct answer is false.

The thirty-two-word Amendment states the following:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to its jurisdiction.… Read the rest

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