The Slavery Loophole: How the Nation’s Prisoners are Striking to End Institutionalized Forced Labor Permitted by the Thirteenth Amendment
CARLI RABEN—On September 9th, as many as 24,000 federal and state prisoners in up to twelve states went on strike and refused to show up to prison jobs for what organizers are deeming “a Call to Action Against Slavery in America.” The Thirteenth Amendment abolished the practice of slavery in the United States with one […]