Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery or involuntary servitude, allowing it as punishment for a crime written into ...

On the other side of the state line, Nevada voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to ban “slavery and involuntary servitude.” These diverging results in two neighboring states raised ...

On the other side of the state line, Nevada voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to ban "slavery and involuntary servitude." These diverging results in two neighboring states raised questions ...

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 ...

A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes ...

In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

Proposition 6 would have amended the state’s constitution to remove the current provision that allows jails and prisons to use involuntary servitude as punishment against incarcerated people.