Shocker! The US 13th amendment doesn’t outlaw slavery completely?

Question

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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."May 10, 2022

Except as punishment??? Wait, what???

Answer 1

Yes you've got to have a bit of slavery to keep things going. In Bizarro World.

Answer 2

The punishment they are referring to is for those incarcerated in state and federal prisons regardless of race.

 
*FACT : "1.2 million people in its state and federal prisons, and incarcerated workers produce more than $2 billion in goods and commodities annually. According to those findings, incarcerated people earn an average of 13 to 52 cents per hour. Some states, like Alabama and Arkansas, do not pay incarcerated workers at all.

* Souce: ACLU

This was actually on 5 state Ballots in 2022. Whether to abolish it or not.

Comments

I wish people would get it right.

Answer 3

Last year, in an insightful story by the New Jersey Monitor’s Dana Diflippo readers learned of the plight of New Jersey inmates were getting paid a dollar or two a day at their prison jobs even as the “Department of Corrections, consequently, hiked prices in prison commissaries, the only place incarcerated people can buy basic necessities and food.”

Answer 4

Yeah that's all about incarceration of Black people. 

Answer 5

It's a guise.... considering a decent percentage of prisoners are Black.....