Legal Slavery
Joe Dole, the policy director of Parole Illinois and author of A Costly American Hatred, notes that thousands of companies, their employees and
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13th Amendment
US Prison Workers Produce $11B Worth Of Goods And Services For Little To No Pay At All
Incarcerated workers produce more than $2 billion per year in goods and more than $9 billion per year in services for the maintenance
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The Chains Of Slavery Still Exist In Mass Incarceration
Echoes of slavery—and the white supremacy that fueled it—continue to reverberate through the U.S. criminal legal system. The 13th Amendment may have outlawed
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To Celebrate Juneteenth, Focus On Ending Mass Incarceration
Every year on June 19, Americans have the opportunity to commemorate Juneteenth—the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to
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