Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation

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> Prison labor is legal in the United States due to a loophole in the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which banned slavery, except for people convicted of crimes.

The 13th amendment is interpreted as allowing forced labor while incarcerated, but that's not the same thing allowing slavery for people convicted of crimes. I can't see how it helps to confuse the two.

Amendment XIII, Section 1. 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.

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