Comment on California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoYes, but also these are pretrial detainees, as in not yet convicted of any crime. Article 1 of the 13th amendment says “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 jurisdiction.” (emphasis my own)
Yes, this is unconstitutional,and the constitutional kind is immoral.
I brought up convict leasing because charges were often made up or people were convicted of violations like not having a job. Essentially if you were black in the south you could be arrested and re-enslaved at any time. Not that far off from what we’re witnessing here. Trials were a formality and the laws were unjust to begin with.
jonne@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Yep, they should have standing to sue for constitutional violations. It’s slavery even by the standards laid out by the constitution.