California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

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 ...

Nearly 20 states have constitutions that include language permitting slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments. In 2018, Colorado was the first to remove the language from its ...

In California, voters chose to keep the status quo, allowing "involuntary servitude" to remain legal in prisons. On the other side of the state line, Nevada voters overwhelmingly passed a measure ...

A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted. In California, voters chose to keep the ...

In 2018, Colorado became the first state to eliminate slavery and involuntary servitude in its prisons. Since then, more than 15 states have followed suit, from Nebraska, Utah, and Oregon to ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in California receive $74,000 on average plus benefits, prisoners receive $2 a day ...

California voters rejected Proposition 6, a measure aiming to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude for prisoners, ...

A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In California, voters chose to keep the status ...

But state lawmakers blocked a bill that would ... But the exception for involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime remained on the books. The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bans ...