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ICE Loves to Buy Furniture Made With Prison Labor, Documents Show
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. government often purchases office furniture and other goods made for pennies on the dollar...
Was that made by Arizona prison labor? Prisoners make many everyday items
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYour child is sleeping on a mattress made from prisoners’ clothes. At state universities, the...
Thousands of jobs, pennies on the dollar: How Illinois uses prison labor
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFor the small savings he built while working as an Illinois Department of Corrections inmate,...
California lawmakers revive effort to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn inmate from the Puerta La Cruz conservation camp in Warner Springs puts out burning downed trees...
The Most Beautiful Cornhole Set in America Was Made in Maine’s Maximum Security Prison
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Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state's making money from it
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn a Soviet-styled way to make money off taxpayer funds for its own benefit, the Department of...
'Am I next?': Prison laborers strike as activists deliver demands to corrections department
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA protest and labor strike on opposite sides of Alabama’s prison walls began Monday morning to...
Why Britain’s packed prisons could help fill 1m job vacancies
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPrisoners are being trained to work on railway tracks ahead of their release - David Rose for The...
California prisoners could get higher wages under new plan — but still less than $1 an hour
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIncarcerated men including Khiem Tran, foreground, work in the coding center at California's San...
Letters to the Editor: Is forced labor good for inmates, or is it modern slavery?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoInmates walk through the exercise yard at California State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom, in 2013....