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Ali v. Johnson, No. 00-10777 (5th Cir.) (259 F.3d 317) (July 11, 2001) (Judge Edith H. Jones)

Here the Court held that prisoners sentenced to incarceration cannot state a viable Thirteenth Amendment claim if the prison system requires them to work since under those conditions "no issue of peonage or involuntary servitude arises".

 

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