You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel show On Demand, on the Iheart Radio app.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

All right, let me throw a question at you.

Would you ever think that slavery still exists in the United States?

Slavery. I mean, you go back to January 1st, 1865, the 13th Amendment kicked in, which eliminates slavery.

Yet here we are, looking at a slavery issue. Well, is it really slavery? A lot of people

think so. And here's what it's about. There is a proposition, California proposition, of course

California, coming up in November, and it has to do with ending forced labor, slavery, in California prisons.

Prop 6 would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the state from punishing

inmates with involuntary work or from disciplining inmates who refuse to work.

The supporters, Prop 6, are saying, you know what they call that?

Forcing someone to work, prison or no prison, punishing someone for not working,

that's slavery where they come from.

And you know, that's an argument, okay?

And going on, this group that is pitching it, new way of life, are saying they exploited our labor.

These are people that were previous inmates.

They exploited our labor for eight cents, ten cents, twelve cents people that were previous inmates, they exploited our labor for

eight cents, ten cents, twelve cents, fifty cents an hour, and we returned to our

communities with nothing. Okay. So here is what they're asking. This one's kind of

new for me because I didn't know this was going on. The proposition calls for state prisons to set up volunteer work assignment programs that

take the time off sentences in the form of credits, which I think happened anyway, but it's

not mandatory, and would have the county or city establish a pay scale for inmates in local jails.

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