Slavery on the Ballot — 2022
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3 min readNov 8, 2022
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The US leads the world in per-capita incarcerated people with more than 1.2 million people in state prisons throughout the country.¹ And it has a long and troubled history with incarceration as an enduring modern extension of slavery dating back to the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Ten US states still allow slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for the incarcerated. In the 2022 midterm elections only five of…
