US Prisoners Are Fighting Wildfires For 50 Cents An Hour | Dispatches from the Underclass
▻http://raniakhalek.com/2013/11/30/us-prisoners-are-fighting-wildfires-for-50-cents-an-hour
... thanks to a loophole in the #13th_amendment, which states:
_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_ .