13th Amendment, 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.
It’s crazy to think that the entire South is a no travel zone. I’d be scared to go down there and be locked up for NOTHING. You don’t have any rights in the South if you’re not from the right families or go to the right church.
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Walk away from your cultures, identities, and social institutions. Open up every social aspect to reflection. Choose different worlds. Stand united for basic change.
Meanwhile, certain U.S. politicians like my state's Sr. Senator & soon to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio rail against China imprisoning & slave laboring the Uyghurs. How can they be taken seriously on this issue if they ignore similar practices in the USA?
"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"
I think it sucks ass, myself. But it's legal until it's amended.
"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"
So in addition to it being slavery, where exactly do these millions go? Because Alabama is VERY poor (*️⃣🏈) & always looking for a handout from🟦states & the federal gov't...probably directly into rich, white Republican pockets, correct? Since apparently we're just finding out about this, anyone know?
This is personal. When we have states profiting off of human beings, it is slavery. Incarceration was the punishment for their crimes. Not indentured servitude.
My title for Elon is H-1B, slave master. He wants to build a compound so he can control their lives, breed them, and set them up for a lifetime of service to him and his businesses.
Most people don’t know that slavery was never outlawed in the US. Using prisoners as slaves remained legal. That’s why it’s so widely used and abused. Our country has been morally bankrupt since the beginning.
That sure reads like slavery to me - Someone please tell me when that SOB Abbott is ending his Governorship, it feels like forever that, that Man has been ruling over Texas and not in a good way.
This is why I don’t think there will be mass deportations. Geo Group, a for-profit prison conglomerate and others have billion dollar contracts with ICE. These prisons will house ANY brown people to be used as free slave labor to farms, mfg plants, warehouses, and anywhere there is a labor shortage.
wtaf?? what a backwards friggen world we are living in. How is that not illegal, it’s certainly a conflict of interest on the state’s part since they get the money and they get the decision to deny parole? wtf.
Just a note
the 13th amend codifies prison slave labor
"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".
the two biggest mistakes of the Reconstruction were not abolishing the Electoral College and the stupid line in the emancipation amendment saying "penal prisoners are slaves"
that allowed all the bogus legal precedent governing slaves to apply to prisoners instead of simply being swept away.
Good point. The law says that labor can be a punishment, but it doesn't say that all prisoners are slaves. Therefore enslaving the prisoners is still an abuse
It really stood out to me in the first Trump term when people in detention centers were being put to work. They had not even been convicted of anything.
That's exactly what they fvcking mean! This has to stop NOW! If they think for one minute they are going to bring this bs back they have another thing coming and President Musk is going to see just how "retarded" the American people can be!
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I thought that requiring inmates to work while incarcerated was illegal-I remember a working farm prison near Houston growing up and a Supreme Court case that stopped the farming. How is this different?
Want to bet that some of these prisoners will be harvesting crops before long. The states that incarcerate young Black males for possession of THC have little incentive to relax drug laws when they can sell their labor.
The 13th? My HS age kids recommended this movie I give it 👍👍 Prison Yoga Project training also helped me understand criminal & racial justice and restorative justice. Just read “the sum of us” by Heather McGee! Highly recommend that too!
It gets worse. Alabama has the highest prison death rate in the country. A prisoner a day dies, and if you can't work because you get sick or injured working these jobs... they put you back in the higher death rate prisons.
Oh I’m sure that their Sunday morning weekly social club leader told them that it was ok with ‘God’ so they feel verified…. There is a reason that we have the highest incarceration rate of any modern nation!! Their hearts never changed, they just found a new way to approach it!
For-profit prison industry goes hand in glove with criminalizing homelessness, mental illness, addiction, poverty, immigration status, & race.
The false online influence & speeches fear-mongering about “other” people eager to harm "good” patriotic people feeds the prison/slavery/profit industry.
For profit prisons are insane. Monetizing slave labor incentivizes abuse. The OK gov said on camera he didn’t want early release bc who’s gonna do the work? He said it on camera. 😡
Bama made $450 million/yr from prison labor. These same prisoners who were "leased" out to companies, worked off-site, were then denied parole as being deemed "too dangerous". So they can work off-site but are too dangerous to parole. Got it. It's AL way to keep them imprisoned for their labor.
Who do people think are going to take the place of the immigrants Trump & Co. want deported? That’s the plan. Just not enough people see it coming. Yet.
The 13th Amendment makes involuntary servitude illegal except as punishment for a crime. This was used heavily post Civil War to keep freedman working for their “masters”. Exploitation of workers takes many forms. Women locked into the involuntary servitude of forced birthing committed no crime.
Yes, slavery. That is all our prison system does because they do not rehabilitate the prisoners, just profit off of them.
It's a Republican's wet dream; keep the population ignorant, poor, distracted by invented wedge issues, & imprisoned.
Back to slavery when the migrants are deported.
And this is what will happen to the detained undocumented immigrants. There’s a reason why the private prison corporations’ stocks soared after the election.
Slave wages
state collects earnings
So technically slavery
Modern slavery for private owned prisons
Put in prison for debts could also put you becoming a slave owned by a company.
Liquidate these companies from holdings.
Otherwise you are a slave owner owning shares.
Yes indeed. Excellent post. I have been posting about this on other platforms. It is a disgusting legalized continuation of slavery. Thank you for posting this. THIS is why DOGE wants to eliminate federal prisons, so they can give private prisons more slaves to rent out in confederate states.
The OK governor, on camera, said he didn’t want to implement an early release system bc then ‘who’s goin’ to do the work?’ He said it. On camera. Out loud. Why that wasn’t national news is fucking beyond me. They’re literally keeping ppl in jail on purpose for slave labor
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13th Amendment, 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.
Of the worst.
https://bsky.app/profile/shigeyo.bsky.social/post/3le5uxhumkk2m
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-prisons-inmates-bodies-internal-organs-394ee93d95f7ad798191e0abdb5df0ec
My g-d.
The coming year will make this SOP.
We need to do some research from multiple sources - social media like is a good place to exchange information.
Some unthinkable_s appear to have been happening.
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-prisons-inmates-bodies-internal-organs-394ee93d95f7ad798191e0abdb5df0ec
It is wrong and should not be.
"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"
I think it sucks ass, myself. But it's legal until it's amended.
"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"
Being legal and being moral/ethical are NOT the same thing.
We still have a voice and we should be using it!
The majority of laws in America are designed to protect property and profits, not people.
This may be their
solution to the vacancy left by returning the migrants.
Detain in camps and offer a chance
to stay and recind it
the first excuse they get,like less picked because you're sick or injured.
I think they'll threaten u to not bring attention to them.
the 13th amend codifies prison slave labor
"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".
that allowed all the bogus legal precedent governing slaves to apply to prisoners instead of simply being swept away.
I’ve always wondered if there’s a case to be made that a judge must specifically call out labor as the sentence for it to be possible.
Now that we’re just reinterpreting the laws.
It really stood out to me in the first Trump term when people in detention centers were being put to work. They had not even been convicted of anything.
Might make a great documentary.
Red States love putting children into meat grinders.
Slavery? In Alabama?!? Why, surely not...
I mean who could even think of such a thing.
Time to break some crackers again. Except this time, mill down the bigger pieces to dust.
Coming to a state near you if it's not already there.
Wake up America
It's disgusting.
Taking jobs from law-abiding citizens. How Alabamian of them.
https://youtu.be/z7ZATazg8Ak?si=IZcBouzvaetQoDyO
The false online influence & speeches fear-mongering about “other” people eager to harm "good” patriotic people feeds the prison/slavery/profit industry.
Modern day slavery exists.
It's a Republican's wet dream; keep the population ignorant, poor, distracted by invented wedge issues, & imprisoned.
Back to slavery when the migrants are deported.
I’ve been telling people THIS is how they get around deporting people. Prison labor.
state collects earnings
So technically slavery
Modern slavery for private owned prisons
Put in prison for debts could also put you becoming a slave owned by a company.
Liquidate these companies from holdings.
Otherwise you are a slave owner owning shares.