[MSFT_Edging]

Probably an Amendment that needs amending.

It was used en masse with turn of the century vagrancy laws to arrest Black people who didn't have enough cash on hand, then send them to other states to work and/or die in coal mines as essentially slave labor.

Even happened to children who committed minor crimes.

The 13th Amendment provides incentive to incarcerate, and with private prison industries existing period, that incentive probably should not exist at all.

[kcplate]

> Probably an Amendment that needs amending.

Good luck, the US is still trying to get the equal rights amendment (which everyone basically agrees with) ratified for going on 54 years now.

I cant imagine the process gyrations and political wrangling it would take to convince our political leadership in congress and basically every red state legislature to take on a new amendment specifically tuned just towards prisoner’s rights.

[MiiMe19]

If you commit a crime tough it out and dont do it again lol.

[OutOfHere]

You are basically supporting slavery. This support is in no way appropriate, not even on race grounds, because it doesn't discriminate by race.

It's worse because slavery is a harmful incentive to keep people UNFAIRLY imprisoned.

[goodmythical]

What about for the tens of thousands that are demonstrably innocent and still serving time?

Every single innocence project has years or decades of backlogged cases.

[MSFT_Edging]

You're an unserious clown.