US Petition to Abolition Prison Slavery calls for changing the Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution to remove the Exception for "slavery…as a punishment for crime…"; with the return of all citizenship, labor, familial, economic, civil, Constitutional, human rights to prisoners, their families, and their communities.
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". (emphasis)
To read:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, NOT EVEN AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."