The West Coast state has decided to keep slavery legal, allowing prisons and jails across California to force involuntary ...

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Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

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Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor.

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor.

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

Prisoners in California will still be forced to fight wildfires and make furniture for minimal pay, as voters appear to have rejected Proposition 6.

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The measure aims to make prison labor voluntary, following the lead of states across the country that have banned slavery in ...