Prisoners Stage Nationwide Protest Against ‘Modern Day Slavery’
They want better conditions, minimum wage payment for prison labor, sentencing reform and more rehabilitation services.
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This strike also comes amid concern over the more than 2,000 California prisoners who are helping to combat the state’s enormous wildfires.
The volunteer inmate firefighters earn $2 a day plus $1 an hour, in addition to time off their sentences.
Is this perhaps relevant?
XIII 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.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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