California voters just decided that making rapists and other convicted felons work while incarcerated is not slavery. Good call!

On Election Day, Bear Flag Republic voters confronted — along with referenda on increased bond funding for public schools and in-state colleges, the creation of a constitutional right to marriage, and an increase in the $16 per hour minimum wage — a proposal to eliminate so-called involuntary servitude, the California Department of Corrections’s practice of forcing prison inmates to work.