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The 13th Amendment banned slavery — except as punishment for a crime. In many states, and in the US Constitution, these exception clauses allow prisons to exploit, underpay, and exclude incarcerated people from workplace safety protection laws. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 15, 2022

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BREAKING: We dropped a report looking at state and federal prison labor programs, and the results are clear: Prisons use coercion and exploitation to pay incarcerated people pennies while benefiting from their labor. Worse still, the Constitution permits this vestige of slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 15, 2022

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The exception clause in the 13th Amendment encouraged the imprisonment and re-enslavement of Black people during the Jim Crow era. We feel the impact of this systemic racism in the disproportionate incarceration rates of Black and Brown communities today. https://t.co/KNl45AYnE6 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 15, 2022