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"“You’re a slave — that’s what they tell us,” he said. A spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, Ken Pastorick, said it “does not tolerate” such language and is looking into the allegation." (...) "Archille said he had given the guard’s name earlier but that no action was taken."
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“Louisiana law mandates that state inmates, necessarily serving a felony conviction, are required by law to work while incarcerated, each inmate who is capable of working, is assigned a job duty, which may include working for the prison, or for Prison Enterprises.”
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“I was a 16-year-old kid who went straight from the classroom to the cotton field,” said Terrance Winn, 49, who gave testimony to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for its 2022 U.S. review about his time at Angola from 1991 to 2020
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-¨´Human beings should not be property of other people or entities,´ he said.¨
-“´They force us to work,´ said Jonathan Archille, 29, who is among more than a dozen current and formerly incarcerated people in Louisiana who told The Washington Post they have felt like enslaved people in the state’s prison system.¨
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“They force us to work,” said Jonathan Archille, 29, who is among more than a dozen current and formerly incarcerated people in Louisiana who told The Washington Post they have felt like enslaved people in the state’s prison system.
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In recent years, there has been a growing movement to change state constitutions to prevent forced labor — part of a wider push to “End the Exception” in the 13th Amendment to the U.S.
At Louisiana State Penitentiary, known colloquially as Angola, incarcerated people clean the prison, cook for fellow inmates, farm vegetables for the corrections department, help sick people as orderlies in the prison hospital, and care for hospice patients.
1. The average prison wage is 52 cents an hour, while seven states are not required to pay prisoners for work.
2. “We didn’t understand what we were voting for.”
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"Given that some felony convictions in the state come with sentences including imprisonment 'at hard labor,' Seabaugh explained, people must work while incarcerated. 'If you’re going to say a sentence with hard labor is tantamount to indentured servitude, and you outlaw indentured servitude, then you have potentially just invalidated' them, Seabaugh said."
"Those who refuse to work at Angola can be sent to segregated housing, beaten, and denied visits with family"
“They force us to work,” said Jonathan Archille, 29, who is among more than a dozen current and formerly incarcerated people in Louisiana who told The Washington Post they have felt like enslaved people in the state’s prison system.
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