Signing this United Nations and United States Petition to Abolition Prison Slavery calls for changing the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution to remove the offensive exception for "slavery…as a punishment for crime…" with the return of all citizenship, labor, familial, economic, civil, Constitutional, and human rights to prisoners, to their families, and to the communities from which they come.
Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (1865)
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". (my emphasis added)
To read:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, NOT EVEN AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME,