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Originally posted by Ideal08
I have had this question ever since I read Assata. In there, she states that slavery is still legal in the prison system, according to the 13th Amendment. I was wondering if that was true, so I did a search, and here is what I came up with (bolding and italics courtesy of yours truly):
U.S. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery And Involuntary Servitude
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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.
Oh, I got that from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/c...n/amendment13/
Did anyone know this already and I'm just late? And what do you think of it? Because my thing is this. Sadly, prison populations are largly comprised of minorities. So to have slavery in prisons... you can see where I'm going with this. So, what y'all think?
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This amendment was made as a part of President Abraham Lincoln's strategy to maintain the union...
It is not so much that one does a crime so they should do the time, rather it has to with what happens to someone while they are incarcerated and the issues with recidivism (sp.)--meaning the prison mentality, what the mental breakdown one goes through and how well a "rehabilitated" former felon can reintegrate into "civilized" society... Given that recidivism is high, one would think that this amendment is part of a self-fulfilling prophecy...