Prison Slave Labor for American Corporations

Written By Augustus Turner

The Phillips Penitentiary prisoners producing goods for the Hughes Company is not fiction. Investigations documented more than 500 real American businesses, including nationally recognized chains, using American prisoners as cheap, unregulated, and unpaid labor. The 13th Amendment’s exception clause makes it legal.

•       Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: 500+ Businesses Using Alabama Prisoners as Cheap Labor

•       NPR: Prisoners Are Suing Alabama Over Forced Labor, Calling It a Form of Slavery

•       In These Times: Alabama Slavery — Prison Labor and Capitalism

•       U.S. News: Alabama Profits Off Prisoners

•       PBS NewsHour: Inmates at Louisiana’s Angola Prison Sue to End Working Farm Lines in Brutal Heat

•       The Marshall Project: Prison Plantations

•       JSTOR Daily: Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation

•       AP: Prison to Plate — Inmate Labor Investigation

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