California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

President-elect Trump could ax a federal program that protects undocumented immigrants who are witnesses in workplace investigations.

This decision defies the expectation that California would join other states in abolishing this form of modern slavery. According to several outlets, 53.8 percent of voters said “no” to ending forced ...

By Katie Priest, Nov. 12, 2024 Californians failed prisoners and each other last week by passing Propositions 6 and 36. Proposition 6 continues the practice of using involuntary labor as punishment ...

Although slavery was officially outlawed in California in 1850, the state’s constitution has long permitted forced labor in ...

Proposition 6 would have removed a provision from the state Constitution that allows “involuntary servitude” as punishment ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

In a setback to California’s historic reparations effort ... who viewed their efforts as part of a national movement to end a ...

A California ballot proposition that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor has failed.

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor.

In California, voters rejected a measure that would have outlawed using involuntary servitude as a punishment against ...