A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California ... Nevada voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to ban “slavery and involuntary servitude.” These diverging results in ...

Land, however, argued that ending legalized slavery is not a criminal justice issue. It’s a civil rights issue: “You can’t reform legalized constitutional slavery,” she said. Nevada has ...

and people with firsthand experience in New York prisons gathered at the Capitol in Albany on Tuesday morning to push for prison labor reforms. The lead measure, the No Slavery in New York Act ...

Sen. Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in criticizing the proposed spending in President Trump's "big beautiful bill." Musk called it ...

Tennessee and Oregon in addressing prison labor reform. Colorado led the change in 2018, with other states following in 2020 and 2022. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery nationally but kept an ...

60 YEARS AFTER SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN THE COMMONWEALTH ... FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND PRISON REFORM ADVOCATES VOICED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, WHICH THEY BELIEVE ...

Ministers have been warned of a 'myriad of risks' to children, involving abuse and domestic servitude, as recently as three months ago.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery said in a report last week that Canada's "Temporary Foreign Worker Program serves as a breeding ground for contemporary forms ...