By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer - California is one of 20 states where involuntary servitude is allowed as criminal punishment and prison rights advocates are leading the charge to remove the language from the state constitution.
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Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) has picked up the baton to carry on the fight to eradicate the phrase “involuntary servitude except as a punishment to crime” from California’s Constitution.
Samual Nathaniel Brown said he is not surprised that Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) picked up the baton to carry on the fight to eradicate the phrase “involuntary servitude except as a punishment to crime” from California’s Constitution. This time around, Brown, Wilson and other supporters of the End Slavery in California Act say they are determined to retire the constitutional clause that allows labor imposed on felons as criminal punishment in California prisons. | By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media Samual Nathaniel Brown said he is not surprised that Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) picked up the baton to carry on the fight to eradicate the phrase “involuntary servitude except as a punishment to crime” from California’s Constitution. Brown, who contributed to writing Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 3, the California Abolition Act,
Prison advocates throughout the United States are pushing to make prison work voluntary, and some say the practices violate the Constitution's ban on slavery.