Involuntary servitude is commonly known as slavery, but as Wikipedia defines it, involuntary servitude is "is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion...involuntary servitude does not necessarily connote the complete lack of freedom experienced in chattel slavery..."
In other words, it can be mandated community service or something similar. So, yes, it is permitted, but ONLY as punishment for crime.
In depth explanation:
"In 1865 Congress enacted thehttp://www.answers.com/topic/amendment-xiii-to-the-u-s-constitution, which the Union states ratified. Section 1 of the amendment provides that "[n]either 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." Section 2 gives Congress the authority to enforce the provisions of section 1.
The Thirteenth Amendment makes involuntary servitude unlawful whether the compulsion is by a government or by a private person. The penalty for violation of the amendment must be prescribed by law. Although the principal purpose of the amendment was to abolish African slavery, it also abolished other forms of compulsory labor similar to slavery, no matter what they are called. For example, it abolished bond service and peonage, forms of compulsory service based on a servant's indebtedness to a master.
An individual has a right to refuse or discontinue employment. No state can make the quitting of work a crime, or establish criminal sanctions that hold unwilling persons to a particular labor. A state may, however, withhold unemployment or other benefits from those who, without just cause, refuse to perform available gainful work."
sources: Wikipedia, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Involuntary+Servitude
As punishment for a crime.
The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery with a single exception. It allows involuntary servitude 'as a punishment for crime whereof the party has been duly convicted.'
Not officially. Overt slavery ended with the 13th Amendment in 1865. But in many places there were prison farms and chain gangs. Troublesome blacks could find themselves here more for speaking out than for any crime. It took the threat of prosecution for involuntary servitude (the legal term for slavery) by the Roosevelt administration's Justice Department to rein in the worst of these abuses.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution 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. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
No. Slavery ended in Mississippi when the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution became law, December 6, 1865. The Mississippi State Constitution of 1868 banned slavery: 'Sec. 19. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this State, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.' The internet rumor that slavery was legal until 1995 in Mississippi is false.
Convict labor could be rented by plantation and business owners.
Amendment 13 allows involuntary servitude only as a punishment for a crime.
As punishment for a duly convicted crime
As punishment for a crime.
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The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery with a single exception. It allows involuntary servitude 'as a punishment for crime whereof the party has been duly convicted.'
The Thirteenth Amendemnt to the US Constitution provides: "Neither slavery nor involuntary sertivude, except as punishsment for crime whereof the party has been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." By inference, convicted criminals may be forced into involuntary servitude.
A punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
The protection from slavery or involuntary servitude is found in the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, not the Bill of Rights. The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865 and specifically prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.