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In December 1865, Georgia became the 27th state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment and thus enumerated the abolition of slavery into the United States Constitution. However, the Thirteenth Amendment contains a lesser-known exemption clause that allows slavery as a “punishment for crime whereof the party...

During the height of the “tough on crime” era of the 1990’s, Gov. Parris Glendening, declared that “life means life” and therefore he would not grant parole to any prisoner who was serving a life sentence. Since then, both Republican and Democratic governors have followed...