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Sen. Cory Booker questions US prison labor policies, calls for change
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 2 hours agoCory Booker said at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on prison labor Tuesday. “Our prisons...
Court rejects NAACP claim Arizona's private prisons use is akin to slavery
Arizona Daily Star· 7 hours agoArizona’s use of private prisons does not violate the rights of inmates, a federal appeals court...
Experts urge Congress to reform prison labor
Courthouse News Service· 7 hours agoprisons. Incarcerated people in federal prisons don’t just work as cooks or janitors within prison walls. In some states, prison ...
People from prisons often have little training, protections for doing dangerous work
The Patriot-News· 3 days agoBlas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to...
WAAY 31 Special Report: Inmates accuse Alabama prison system of state-sanctioned slavery
WAAY-TV Huntsville· 5 days agoCurrent and former inmates filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama'sprison labor program as a type of...
'Modern-Day Form Of Slavery': Lawsuit Alleges Alabama Denies Parole To Use Prisoners For Forced ...
Black Enterprise· 5 days agoA group of current and former Black prisoners have filed a class action suit against Alabama leaders...
Inside The Dangerous Life-Threatening Jobs American Prisoners Are Forced Into
Black Enterprise· 4 days agoOn Thursday, May 16, the Associated Press released a two-year investigation that takes a deep dive...
Opinion | The new ‘Jim Crow’ in the US is much worse than ‘forced’ labour in Xinjiang
South China Morning Post· 6 days agoForced labour? If you delete “China” and “Chinese” in the text, the CECC could just have been...
Takeaways from the investigation into how US prisoners are hurt or killed on the job
ABC 15 Phoenix· 6 days agoA sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that ...
US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed?
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoBlas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to...