Laws passed during the era of the New Deal prohibited the use of prison labor with the exception of state institutions. However, lobbying by corporations eventually allowed them to use prison labor by 1979, and by 1995 businesses won exemptions from minimum wage laws which permitted them to exploit prison labor for, according to Elizabeth S. Anderson, “mere pennies an hour.” She adds that “many are forced to work in unsafe conditions without protective equipment, because workplace health and safety laws do not apply to prison workers.”[39]
I didn’t laugh at Kanye till he came out as a Nazi. Even when he had his MAGA hat on he was supporting i.e. Colin Kaepernick and 13th Amendment changes and that was pretty cool despite the other loser behavior. Also: Bernie Sanders certainly has focused on the 13th amendment.