the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
Section 1.
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.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Slavery never went away. It’s just been rebranded, repackaged and sanitized.
Not American, but isn’t that what the 13th amendment did? Make slave labour legal for prisons?
the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
Yep!
As a foreigner, you probably know more about the US Constitution than most US citizens. And I’m saying that as a natural born US citizen.