> "This is because the 13th
Amendment to the United States Constitution, which
generally protects against slavery and involuntary
servitude, explicitly excludes from its reach those
held in confinement due to a criminal conviction." - ACLU report on prison labor in the US
From this thread:
Whenever I catch myself saying or thinking "the GOP wants to repeal the 13th Amendment" I have to remember that they don't need to, they just need to criminalize more people.
@emmah Yeah, and this is why policing and race are so intertwined as well.
