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Real Prison Reform Requires Constitutional Revision
Kyle Fraser, Black Agenda Radio producer
06 Nov 2018
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Eliminating the portion of the 13thAmendment to the US Constitution that allow enslavement of prisoners is central to prison reform, said prison abolitionist and spoken word artist Max Parthas. “What we can do is very much limited until we an remove the protections of slavery from the state and federal constitutions,” said Parthas.

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