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Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour [1] that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. [2] Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude, and imprisonment with hard labour.
Penal labor in the United States is the practice of using incarcerated individuals to perform various types of work, either for government-run or private industries. Inmates typically engage in tasks such as manufacturing goods, providing services, or working in maintenance roles within prisons.
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining.
Because of this so called 'exception clause' allows for forced labor of incarcerated people. Penal labor and convict leasing is still federally permissible and practiced in every state today. Historically, under this system, private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of prisoners, nearly all of whom were ...
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at ...
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Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons.
California lawmakers voted to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to completely ban involuntary servitude, a change that would remove an exception in cases involving the ...