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The Exception Clause, also known as the Punishment Clause, of the U.S. Constitutions 13th Amendment means that involuntary servitude and forced labor is still permissible as punishment for a crime.
The Punishment Clause
Today, thousands of incarcerated people are subjected to forced labor in prisons as a result of this legal exception. The Punishment Clause has been a blight on the U.S. for over 100 years, creating an economic incentive for increasing incarceration and exploiting incarcerated people as a source of cheap labor, predominantly affecting Black people and people of color.
https://www.freedomunited.org/news/13th-amendment-prison-slavery/
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Finding alternatives to cheap immigration labor - Thank you, 13th Amendment (Original Post)
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(3,545 posts)2. Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/voters-in-five-states-have-the-chance-to-wipe-slavery-and-indentured-servitude-off-the-books/ar-AA13hBBN
Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books
Shawna Mizelle - 3h ago
When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.
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, the amendment reads.
The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasnt been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee will be given the opportunity to exorcise the punishment from their states constitutions once and for all, according to a CNN review of pending ballot initiatives.
The proposed amendments would either explicitly rule out slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments or remove the terms from state law altogether.
Advocates are hailing the initiatives as long overdue and hope that state-level movements will one day lead to the removal of such language from the 13th Amendment altogether, though some argue that the movement underscores a larger need to lift rules permitting forced labor from inmates for little to no pay, a practice that has been likened to indentured servitude. None of the five changes being considered next month would eliminate prison work.
If their populaces vote for this at the state level, then we have to believe that their congressional representatives will also have to support it as a federal measure, said Bianca Tylek, the executive director of Worth Rises, a non-profit that is campaigning to remove the clause from the 13th Amendment. The more states that do this, the more federal support we can garner.
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Voters in five states have the chance to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books
Shawna Mizelle - 3h ago
When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception.
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, the amendment reads.
The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasnt been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and Tennessee will be given the opportunity to exorcise the punishment from their states constitutions once and for all, according to a CNN review of pending ballot initiatives.
The proposed amendments would either explicitly rule out slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments or remove the terms from state law altogether.
Advocates are hailing the initiatives as long overdue and hope that state-level movements will one day lead to the removal of such language from the 13th Amendment altogether, though some argue that the movement underscores a larger need to lift rules permitting forced labor from inmates for little to no pay, a practice that has been likened to indentured servitude. None of the five changes being considered next month would eliminate prison work.
If their populaces vote for this at the state level, then we have to believe that their congressional representatives will also have to support it as a federal measure, said Bianca Tylek, the executive director of Worth Rises, a non-profit that is campaigning to remove the clause from the 13th Amendment. The more states that do this, the more federal support we can garner.
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