Lawmakers want to purge slavery as a punishment for crimes from Ohio's Constitution
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio House lawmakers have launched a bipartisan effort to nix a piece of the state Constitution that allows for slavery as a punis...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio House lawmakers have launched a bipartisan effort to nix a piece of the state Constitution that allows for slavery as a punishment for a crime. Dayton Republican Phil Plummer and Columbus Democrat Dontavius Jarrells, plus a long list of bipartisan cosponsors, introduced what they described as a symbolic fix to Ohio's founding document. If approved, it would place Ohio among a handful of states that recently have changed their constitutions to bar slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime.