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  • US: Five states vote to end "convicted prisoners slavery" [800_000 "pri

    From A. Filip@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 3 10:57:53 2022
    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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