Yes! It does indeed allow for an exception to the "No Slavery" Amendment.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime "

Why? I am guessing:

This was to allow for chain gangs or war time prisoner workers.

USA has become the current sacrificial seat of the NEw WOrld Order

and the Constitution is the last conceputual & legal article of faith on the World's stage,

between total Global One World Government, (Currency, Religion, Police State) and any chance of Liberty/Freedom.

Sad but true. The experiment is almost over... for now. Get ready for 1984. The Corruption of all will lead us there quite naturally. The folks feeding us this lie are always the elites. They don't even know what they are doing most of the time. They are just going along with the winning team... or else.