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Sara Mayeux
Personal blog · prisonlaw.wordpress.compoliticshistory
Sara Mayeux writes Prison Law Blog, a personal blog at prisonlaw.wordpress.com about politics and history. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sara Mayeux's blog for its writing on prison labor and the Thirteenth Amendment's exception for punishment for crime. Comments cite posts on pay rates and legal interpretation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sara Mayeux
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-the-thirteenth-amendment/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-24
What Hacker News says?
It seems like at least some law professors agree with you but courts have generally decided otherwise: http://prisonlaw.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/a-different-take-o...
Comment linking /2010/12/16/a-different-take-on-prison-labor-and-the-thirteenth-amendment/
on “Google Engineer bails out student in jail”It is slave labor. The US constitution bans slavery except for prisoners. Here is the text of the Thirteenth Amendment, Section 1: “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.” – edit: To add a bit more substance, here is an article about the recent Georg…
Comment linking /2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-the-thirteenth-amendment/
on “Google Engineer bails out student in jail”True, here's a good writeup on the subject: https://prisonlaw.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-... . Mind boggling! Also, "The Thirteenth Amendment has also been interpreted to permit the government to require certain forms of public service, presumably extending to military service and jury duty." ( https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-common-interpretation-... )
Comment linking /2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-the-thirteenth-amendment/
on “Housing a prisoner in California costs more than a year at Harvard”In Nevada they earn 13 cents an hour. http://prisonlaw.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-t... That's slave labor.
Comment linking /2010/12/16/prison-labor-and-the-thirteenth-amendment/
on “We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses ”