California Voters Reject Proposed Ban on Forced Prison Labor in Any Form
Source: US News and World Report/AP
Nov. 10, 2024, at 9:19 p.m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution currently bans it except as punishment for crime.
That exemption became a target of criminal justice advocates who are concerned about prison labor conditions. People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at cemeteries.
The initiative was included in a package of reparations proposals introduced by lawmakers as part of an effort to atone and offer redress for a history of racism and discrimination against Black Californians.
Several other states, including Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, have in recent years approved constitutional amendments removing slavery and involuntary servitude exceptions.
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-11-10/california-voters-reject-proposed-ban-on-forced-prison-labor-in-any-form
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(14,491 posts)Cartoonist
(7,552 posts)I've been thinking that when Trump is done deporting all our farm workers, who's going to take those jobs? The new debtors prison will be forced labor.
Lovie777
(15,129 posts)Cartoonist
(7,552 posts)Time to work the fields.
Oopsie Daisy
(4,530 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,678 posts)Prison labor is sold to corporations who use them as a way to "keep jobs in the country".
Oopsie Daisy
(4,530 posts)* and other prison roadside clean up labor.
sinkingfeeling
(53,123 posts)Easterncedar
(3,611 posts)We should be better than this. Ha ha ha