By devaluing incarcerated labor, prisons devalue all labor. Prisons are fundamentally anti-labor institutions, and guards’ ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Incarcerated workers produce $2 billion in goods and $9 billion in services every year. But not all of the incarcerated are ...

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

While they agreed to drop the title, House Democrats passed a bill last week that would make work programs almost entirely ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

More than 2,000 prison guards were fired on Monday for not returning to work after a weekslong strike that violated a state ...

New York officials have started to fire state prison guards who failed to comply with a deal to end their illegal labor ...

The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul made good on a threat to punish those who failed to meet a Monday deadline for returning to their posts ...