Aaron Cynick

Dec 19, 2023 | znetwork.org | Interview Law |Jeronimo Aguilar |Aaron Cynick

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of “involuntary servitude” as punishment for a crime. The modern system of mass incarceration depends on this exception to justify paying millions of incarcerated people subminimum wages that many advocates say is virtually indistinguishable from forms of slavery.