Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo via Getty Images) A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot ...

In the United States, freedom has never been free. For Black Americans, in particular, the price of freedom has been immense, paid through generations of impossible decisions and forced compromises ...

Across Maryland’s prison system, incarcerated workers assemble furniture, sew clothing, and even manufacture cleaning chemicals. In spite of making the state more than $50 million annually in revenue, ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

John Vasquez of Sacramento, who has lived experience in the California prison system, wears a 'retired slave' T-shirt an event at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, to support the passage of ...

Why does American society remain so deeply implicated in the enslavement of Black Americans? Slavery was never abolished in the United States, and today it enjoys widespread support among both ...

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...

The Kentucky constitution prohibits slavery except as a punishment for a crime. The slavery exception clause has helped create a profitable prison-industrial complex in Kentucky. The current system ...

Four Notre Dame High School students will unveil a plaque next week marking the site of a notorious slave prison near Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. This story was commissioned by the River City ...

Though the ballot measures in neighboring states sounded similar, key differences may explain the diverging outcomes. Nevada’s measure included the word “slavery,” while California’s did not.