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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.

大象传媒 Newsday spoke to Scott Roberts from 'Color of Change' - a non-profit civil rights advocacy organisation - about the campaign.

(Pic: Prison perimeter fence with barbed wire; Credit: Getty Images)