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A Hidden Workforce: Prison Labor, Human Rights, and the Legacy of Slavery (Video) – Aspen Institute

Takeaways from the AP’s investigation into how US prisoners are hurt or killed on the job – Margie Mason and Robin McDowell

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)

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.

U.S. prison labor programs violate fundamental human rights – University of Chicago


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