Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:53:57 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Giant step backwards in time
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ah, the rosy glasses that so many of us look at the world through.  I wish
I could remember where I put mine.

At 11:08 PM 7/5/2006, you wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:22:34 -0400 "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org> writes:
> > I think that slavery seems to be reappearing in the U.S.
> > Look at this article about prison labor in Louisiana.
> > I thought this practice was abolished decades ago.
> >    It starts making economic sense for sheriffs to arrest
> > as many able bodied people as possible and various fat
> > cats get rich from not paying wages.
> >
>
>Slavery and involuntary servitude were abolished (outlawed) by the 13
>amendment of the U.S. constitution.  But there is an exception in the
>amendment for convicts.
>
>Sheriffs would probably not go out and arrest people just to get cheap
>labor, because only those who are convicted may be required to work.
>It's not enough to merely be arrested; a person would have to be
>convicted.
>
>Ron Kean

Candy
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