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 ...

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

In a setback to California’s historic reparations effort, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have ended forced 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.

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

California and Nevada voters face decisions on amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary ...

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

“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 ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

Tessa Balc is a fourth year journalism and political science major. She also serves as news editor for The Point. Tessa is ...