Making rapists dig ditches is not slavery

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.