Lawmakers mark Juneteenth with talk of ‘abolition amendment’

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As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery — forced labor for convicted felons — to thrive.

 

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Prison is not supposed to be pleasant mate. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

If you commit a crime, you can do the time and on your dime. Compromise: You don't have to work, but you don't get A/C or heating, and you must fully reimburse taxpayers for all your incarceration costs once you're released via tax intercepts, payroll deductions, etc.

Don't become a convicted felon.

it's punishment not slavery.

Juneteenth is all icing & no cake 🎂. Black ppl need in addition to symbolic gestures, is concrete things like tangible things like checks direct deposited. If that happens, then u ain't just whistling Dixie. Ur putting the money w/ ur pontificating & a whole lot of empty stuff!

Oh please no! Every able bodied person should have to do honest work to support themselves, especially when you are in prison!

The 13th amendment...needs to be amended. It allows for legal slavery, which incentivizes policing, arrests, charges, and long prison sentences to secure cheap labor and huge profits.

Really, from who?

like they are any less free to do that

for anyone convicted of a crime … def doesn’t say felons in the amendment

'another form of slavery' 🤣

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