Photograph of barbed wire fencing and guard towers at a U.S. prison, shot at dusk for a dramatic effect.

Trump’s White Supremacist Appointments and the Systematic Expansion of American Slavery

ByRalph Diner

Despite the abolition of slavery over 150 years ago, a loophole in the 13th Amendment allows forced labor to persist in America’s prisons. As new laws and political appointments threaten to expand these systems, this investigation exposes how legal slavery endures in the United States—and why the fight for true abolition is far from over.