Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

California voters rejected a ballot measure aimed at banning state prisons from using forced labor as a punishment for crimes ...

A California ballot proposition that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor has failed.

In a setback to California’s historic reparations effort, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have ended forced labor ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

Voters appear to be rejecting Proposition 6 in California, a measure to end involuntary ... had already ended involuntary servitude in their prisons in recent elections. So it came as something ...

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited ...

This, advocates say, is what has allowed prisons to force prison workers to work and pay them under a dollar an hour. California is one of eight states that still allow involuntary servitude as a ...

Prop 6 would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit state prisons from forcing incarcerated people to work. It would also prevent the California Department of Corrections and ...