On November 5, Californians rejected a ballot measure banning forced prison labor, voting instead to keep the practice legal in state prisons. Proposition 6, which moved to eliminate the "constitutional provision allowing involuntary servitude for incarcerated persons,

In California, voters rejected a measure that would have outlawed using involuntary servitude as a punishment against prisoners. The Associated Press projected that Proposition 6 would fail at 9:11 p.