‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state. US economy continues to be underpinned by slave labor.

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The 13th amendment of the US constitution banned slavery or involuntary servitude, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”.

According to a January 2024 report by Edgeworth Economics, seven states, including Florida, pay no wages at all for the majority of prison jobs.

He was placed in solitary confinement on one occasion for dropping a hair clipper, and a piece of it broke, and the correctional officer on duty wanted to make an example of him.

Smith explained he had started several vocational programs, but was often moved or transferred before being able to complete and receive certification in culinary arts, in barbering, and in dog training, despite spending hundreds of hours toward each.

Weimar had a very difficult life, from childhood to adulthood, according to her Tallahassee, Florida-based attorney Ryan Williams, from working as a prostitute as a child to struggling with homelessness and drug addictions.

At the federal level, legislation has been introduced annually in recent years in the House and Senate to end the 13th amendment exception permitting slavery as a form of punishment, but has not yet passed.

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