Slavery never left it just got rebranded.
The Thirteenth Amendment needs to be amended.
Per Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18, 1865. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
Slavery is even explicitly allowed as punishment.
Had to find a way to keep the racists happy with the exception to the 13th amendment.
Well, it’s not explicitly there for racists. Punishing crime with labor has a long history, both in and outside the US.
The most common kind in the US is community service as used for a minor punishment in place of incarceration.
It’s by no means good, but the worst examples tend to disproportionately color the perceived level of injustice to it.
Kinda makes a lot of sense as to why black and brown people are way more likely to get arrested
that’s because of racism. Racial inequality in policing isn’t caused by that clause though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_exception_clause
There are states that never allowed slavery that have the exception.