The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then ...

Forced labor as punishment for crime is legal in many states due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment of the U.S.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday proclaimed November 2024 as Native American Heritage Month. In the presidential ...

Jonathan Alter takes us inside the hush money trial that made Donald Trump the first ex-president felon in American history.

The headline sparked a Déjà vu. "American kidnapped in Zamboanga," it read, and suddenly I was back in a fabled and dangerous ...

The investigative reporting pair exposed just how deeply our supply chain relies on prison labor in their “Prison to Plate” ...

Jurisprudence for Jailhouse Lawyers, Part III Summarizing a millennia-old tradition of Roman law, early modern French ...

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday, November 6 gave the way forward on a case filed by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua challenging the empanelment of the High Court bench hearing his ...

AMENDMENT 13. 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 ...

Surah Al-Baqarah, Qur’an 2:179. He also says: “This is the Book (the Qur’an), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those ...

It forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Now, one could argue that the inmates are not forced to work ...

As Ludwig Wittgenstein famously wrote, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” There are some crimes that ...