The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Most Americans know that. Fewer know the rest of that sentence: “except as a punishment ...

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...

California and Nevada voters face landmark decisions on constitutional amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons, joining a growing movement to ...

The U.S. has a history of locking up more people than any other country – currently around 2 million – and goods tied to prison labor have morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire, extending ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave ...

Across Maryland’s prison system, incarcerated workers assemble furniture, sew clothing, and even manufacture cleaning chemicals. In spite of making the state more than $50 million annually in revenue, ...

In the nightmare, Chadarius Morehead is in the field at Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison better known as Angola. It is dark. He sees an armed prison guard, who orders him to bend down and pick ...

Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison ...

Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery. In two years with the company, ...

PHOENIX — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge ...