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Voters in California and Nevada consider ban on forced labor aimed at protecting prisoners

The measures aim to protect incarcerated people from being forced to work under the threat of punishment.

FILE – Steven Abujen, a California prison inmate with the Prison Industry Authority, cleans one of the newly installed headstones at the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, near Folsom, Calif., on Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
FILE – Steven Abujen, a California prison inmate with the Prison Industry Authority, cleans one of the newly installed headstones at the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, near Folsom, Calif., on Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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California and Nevada voters will decide in November if they want to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery.

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