New York constitutional amendment to ‘end slavery for all’ would focus on prison labor
Over 160 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States. Now in 2023, state lawmakers are considering a constitutional amendment that would mark an “end of slavery for all” by ending forced labor in prisons in the state of New York.
The amendment’s state Senate sponsor, Zellnor Myrie, told Capital Tonight that the amendment would make a “statement” that “we will not have slavery by any form or by any name exist in this state.”