The modern day slavery with which I am familiar is modern mass incarceration, which bears some similarities to antebellum slavery, only it’s worse. Unfortunately, my efforts to reform the incarceration regime have come to nothing. read more
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-386), as amended (TVPA), and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Protocol) describe this compelled service using a number of different terms, including involuntary servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, debt bondage, and forced labor. read more