Most people in immigration detention haven't been duly convicted of any crime, and thus the 13a loophole doesn't apply. Jails cannot force people waiting for trial but not convicted of any crime to work involuntarily either.
The bigger moral issue is: Why do we continue to allow the 13a even to have a slavery loophole? Slavery should never be allowed in any context. And neither should "voluntary" servitude for below minimum wages for "commissary" goods essential to life and human decency the for-profit corporate scum prisons fail to furnish. All companies that use prison slave and so-called "voluntary" labor below minimum wage need to be outed and boycotted.
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Most people in immigration detention haven't been duly convicted of any crime, and thus the 13a loophole doesn't apply. Jails cannot force people waiting for trial but not convicted of any crime to work involuntarily either.
The bigger moral issue is: Why do we continue to allow the 13a even to have a slavery loophole? Slavery should never be allowed in any context. And neither should "voluntary" servitude for below minimum wages for "commissary" goods essential to life and human decency the for-profit corporate scum prisons fail to furnish. All companies that use prison slave and so-called "voluntary" labor below minimum wage need to be outed and boycotted.