Slavery never left it just got rebranded.
The Thirteenth Amendment needs to be amended.
Per Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18, 1865. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
Seems like we’re in agreement here then that the issue is for-profit prisons not prison labor itself.
What really americans are missing is the cost analysis here. I’m 100% certain that it would be cheaper for US to have federally run prisons exclusively and pay prison laborers min federal wage.
The invisible crime costs in the US are absolutely insane and in no way inline with any other developed country. I was just reading front page story how a guy in San Frascisco is using movie prop paper bags (like paper bag but without the noise) to hide his 300$ worth macbook from being stolen. That’s literally like less than 3 hours of avg SF labor being at constant risk.
US prison system needs to be straight up reset from 0 - I don’t see how anything else could work here as an outsider.