Louisiana voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the use of involuntary labor as a form of punishment.
, described working at Angola as something “like you see in old pictures of slavery…we even had a quota we had to meet at the end of the day,”
Before Tuesday’s midterms, only four other states had barred slavery as a form of punishment, Colorado, Rhode Island, and as of 2020, Nebraska and Utah. “It is time for all Americans to come together and say that it must be struck from the U.S. Constitution,” Sen. Jeff Merkley The votes this week are a major step in establishing labor rights for incarcerated people.
published in June. The ACLU has advocated for a total repeal of “federal and state constitutional exception clauses allowing slavery and involuntary servitude to be used as punishment for a criminal conviction.”
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