No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a ...

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The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

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In an exclusive interview with WDET, Whelan discussed his ongoing fight to escape government red tape and memories of prison ...

Proposition 6 aimed to amend the California Constitution by removing language permitting involuntary servitude as criminal ...

By performing hard labor, the theory went, prisoners would, as one historian describes, submit “to the hard, Christian labor ...

A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their ...

Some voters who rejected Prop. 6 bought into a misleading narratives that this was about prisoners not wanting to do ‘chores.

He currently works at Progressive Finishes, one of the state’s biggest contractors of prison labor, which says on its website that it has served as a third-party supplier to automotive companies ...

In 2020, the University of Minnesota purchased about $20,000 worth of furniture from MINNCOR, an industry program that uses prison labor to create furniture and other home goods. MINNCOR is a program ...

Takeaways From the Associated Press’ Reporting on Prison Labor in Alabama DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private ...