Newsday - Move to close so-called 'slavery loophole' in US Constitution - BBC Sounds

Should prisoners be used for unpaid forced labour in the United States? It's called "convict leasing" and it saves individual states millions of dollars a year through unpaid work.

Now the "slavery loophole" is under renewed scrutiny after a joint resolution was introduced in Congress last week to remove it from the US Constitution.

BBC Newsday spoke to Scott Roberts, from 'Color of Change' - a non-profit civil rights advocacy organisation about campaign.