America made sure that even after slavery would be abolished that it still thought to provide itself with an ESCAPE CLAUSE... EXCEPT AS PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME So the incarceration rate is out of control especially for NEW AFRIKAN MEN and WOMEN

1. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution officially outlaws slavery
and involuntary servitude, except as
punishment for a crime.

2. Advocates note that the constitution's 13th amendment, ratified in
1865, abolished slavery in the United States, but provided an exception in
cases where persons have been 'duly convicted' in the United States and
territory it controls, slavery or involuntary servitude can be reimposed as
a punishment.

3. The Sentencing Project: Ethnicity and The
Criminal Justice System
The majority of prisoners are Black and
Latino, though they are minorities in terms of
their numbers in the population.

4. America’s New Slavery: Black Men in Prison
By Charlene Muhammad -National Correspondent
Prisoners from the Limestone Correctional
Facility do a trash detail along I-65 in North
Alabama near the Tennessee State line while
working on a chain gang.

5. The chain gang was re-established in 1995.
Becoming one of the first convicts in perhaps a
half-century to break rocks, William
Crook, 28, of Gadsden, Ala., takes a swing with
his 10-pound sledge hammer. Shortly after
sunrise, 160 inmates at the Limestone
Correction Facility marched a half-mile in leg
irons from their dormitories to the rock pile.

6. “The fact is, it’s a business and a readily
accessible, ‘free’ workforce removes prisons’
incentive to rehabilitate, especially those that
are owned by corporations”

7. Laini Coffee, a self-described “unity activist”
said, “At current trend, we could very well see
the number of so-called free Blacks rival to the
same number of those that are incarcerated.
The answer is simple: Unity.”