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Subject: US: Five states vote to end "convicted prisoners slavery" [800_000 "prison slaves" US wide]
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:57:53 +0100
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by: A. Filip - Thu, 3 Nov 2022 09:57 UTC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63338784
> US midterm elections: Why five states have slavery on the ballot in 2022
> ; 2022-11-03T09:18:38.000Z
>
> It's 157 years since the US constitution banned chattel slavery - in
> which one person is the legal property of another - but left in place
> an exemption for convicted prisoners. […]
> But on 8 November, voters in five states - Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon,
> Tennessee and Vermont - will decide whether to remove these exemptions
> from their state constitutions in an effort to ban slavery entirely.
> The outcome could enable prisoners to challenge forced labour. Some
> 800,000 currently work for pennies, or for nothing at all. Seven
> states do not pay prison workers any wage for most job assignments […]

Isn't it handy to store as reference for future rebuttals by PRC?

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