In all the coverage of the red wave that wasn't this midterm cycle, there's this one thing

that voters weighed in on that I'm not sure people have talked about enough.

That thing is slavery.

Five states voted on whether to outlaw slavery this November.

And yes, it is 2022.

And I said excuse me, I'm sorry, say that again.

Or forced prison labor.

Candace says this exemption, it's baked right into the 13th Amendment, the one that technically

abolishes slavery.

It reads neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime shall exist

within the United States.

State constitutions often mimic this language.

And the result is that more than half of all prisoners in the US report being forced

to work, sometimes engrueling or dangerous jobs.

I think sometimes even just saying slavery still exists, it's just not enough because we

have to talk really in specifics.

Yes, to talk in specifics for me.

Like when you say slavery still exists, what do you mean?

When you think of compulsory prison labor, you think of the chain gangs where people are

digging ditches and doing construction and that still does exist.

That is not a former piece of slavery.

That's not a former vestige of slavery that still lives with us.

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