I mean, they even found a way around human rights and labor laws with prison slave work
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (emphasis added)
I don’t think they really “found a way” around it insomuch as they explicitly continued to allow it in the text of the 13th Amendment. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (emphasis added)
I don’t think they really “found a way” around it insomuch as they explicitly continued to allow it in the text of the 13th Amendment. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!