We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Legislators, advocates, and people with firsthand experience in New York prisons gathered at the Capitol in Albany on Tuesday morning to push for prison labor reforms. The ...
Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery. In two years with the company, ...
Derrick Dukes says that low-paid prison labor is slavery (“Minnesota’s prison labor amounts to modern-day slavery,” Strib Voices, Oct. 17). He is wrong. There is a difference between a slave and a ...