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Right now, about 40% of the 93,000 inmates in California's prisons have jobs, including janitorial work, kitchen duty, clerking and fighting fires in the wilderness, one of the most physically ...
The Prop. 6 campaign was largely led by formerly incarcerated people, who spoke about how forced labor jeopardized their health and safety, interfered with their ability to visit with family, and ...
“The goal should be changing behavior,” says Jay Jordan, a longtime criminal justice reform activist who spent 7½ years in prison and advised the Proposition 6 campaign. Read more ...
Prison labor is legal under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. [1] Prison labor in the U.S. generates significant economic output. [2] Incarcerated workers provide services valued at $9 billion annually and produce over $2 billion in goods.
The California Constitution mirrors the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude. However, both allow involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
The prison was constructed in 1816 and prison labor was used to produce common goods like combs, shoes, animal harnesses, carpets, buckets, and barrels. Goods were originally produced and made for use inside the prison only, but expanded to produce products for outside sale in the 1820s to increase the prison's profits and support the prison ...
Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons.
Prison overcrowding in CA led to a 2011 court order to reduce the state prison population by 30,000 inmates.. In the aftermath of decades-long tough on crime legislation that increased the US inmate population from 200,000 [6] in 1973 to over two million in 2009, [7] financially strapped states and cities turned to technology—wrist and ankle monitors—to reduce inmate populations as courts ...