• @clever_banana@lemmy.today
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      111 months ago

      Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime.

      The article did call it slavery

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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      011 months ago

      It’s slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

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        11 months ago

        I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons