One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

Mumia Abu Jamal is one of the world’s best-known political prisoners.  Convicted in 1982 of murdering a Philadelphia police ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

Forced labor as punishment for crime is legal in many states due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment of the U.S.

“Removing slavery was on the ballot in California ... the papers opposed the possibility of higher taxes. The piece frames prison labor as basic housekeeping; in addition to fighting wildfires ...

The recent vote against Proposition 6 underscores the ongoing struggle to eliminate these remnants of slavery from the ...