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Isn’t that literally in the constitution though?
The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, says: “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.
Obviously slavery is horrific
I don't think most people are aware of that exception clause but yes, that's exactly what it says and this sort of situation is exactly why it is phrased that way.
yeah, but we already went down this road and defeated it in court back when they were leasing inmates after the civil war.
From what I can tell, it was never defeated in court, just phased out because it was unpopular.
Also we pretty much have convict leasing now. If you want to be depressed, look up how many big companies use prison labor.
It’s the, but the slavery and/or involuntary servitude is still subject to 8A.
The first step to changing the constitution is to challenge it in a lower court.
The lawsuit accuses the state of violating the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, anti-human trafficking laws and the Alabama Constitution.
There may be something behind the last two but slavery is permitted in the 13th Amendment as punishment for crimes.
Alabama: "Well actually, this is just old school slavery"
And perfectly acceptable according to the US Constitution.
Hell we can't even really blame the Supreme Court if it makes it that far, it's very, very clear.
Jim Crow laws came about in the South to be a bridge for this.
What about the fact that the country was founded on the back of slavery and still allows slavery to this day federally?
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1100064032/deliberate-indifference
If really interested, the local NPR station did a long origin story of the Alabama Prison System.
There was one prison until slavery ended.
Did you know that Alabama is the anus of the US?