cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1462704
We are not talking about the “New Jim Crow.”
We’re talking about the old one.
This is surprising given that Alabama and three other states purportedly passed prison labor abolition laws last year. Perhaps the Alabama bill got watered down to meaningless platitudes before it was passed?
The vast majority of states still haven’t passed laws abolishing the involuntary servitude of the convicted that the 13th amendment allows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Keep in mind that that is partly after the fact; not entirely during the post- period of the bill passing.
But I don’t doubt that it still goes on, even if it has a hurdle to it.
Keep in mind that while the legislation is a victory in its own right (showing which way the working-class is becoming aware and swinging in a certain direction) it will not be thing that signals the death knell to modern-day slavery.
Bold to assume it ever left
