California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution currently bans it except as punishment for crime.

Wilson has also initiated a proposed constitutional amendment. “For too long, California’s prison system has upheld the remnants of slavery through forced labor,” said Wilson in her ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and Nevada voters will decide in November whether to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel ...