The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery back in the mid nineteenth century, but it included an important exception: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist, it declares, except as punishment for a crime. Some lawyers claim this exception allows for forced labor in prisons even if the forced labour not not specified […]

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